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OSTLER EOS Monopole Pinot Noir, Waitaki Valley 2022 Bottle
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Ostler EOS Monopole Pinot Noir, Waitaki Valley
Ostler's EOS Monopole Pinot Noir originates from the limestone slopes of the Waitaki Valley in North Otago. Jeff Sinnott planted this single vineyard on limestone soils interlaced with greywacke gravels, seeking cool-climate tension and structure reminiscent of classic Burgundy. This distinctive limestone terroir delivers an edge and minerality rarely found in New World sites.
Winemaker Jeff Sinnott practices low-intervention viticulture, hand-harvesting fruit before traditional fermentation with indigenous yeasts. The wine matures in tight-grained French oak barrels, with around thirty per cent new wood, to frame rather than mask the fruit profile. Sinnott bottles the wine without fining or filtration to preserve natural texture, structural clarity and tension.
The nose opens with wild thyme, dried violets, crushed limestone and red cherries. The palate reveals pomegranate, sour cherry, forest floor and fine-grained tannins. Crisp acidity drives length across the finish, delivering a focused, cellar-worthy Pinot Noir shaped by genuine limestone geology.
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Jim Jerram, the co-founder of Ostler Vineyards, is one of those pioneers. He planted 8ha of vines on a limestone-based slope in 2001, after 29 years as a GP. ‘We saw the site and thought it was a mini Côte d'Or. It’s on an escarpment too, above the main valley floor, so we get away from frost pockets,’ he said.
Ostler's 2008 Caroline's Vineyard Pinot Noir was the first vintage to make an impression, followed by excellent 2009 and 2010 efforts. After a slightly skeletal example in the cool 2011 vintage, showing the precariousness of this region, it is back on form with its current release: 2013.’Rebecca Gibb MW.
