The Quiet Earth
Hawkes Bay
100% Pinot Noir
13% abv 
The Quiet Earth 2022 is a collaboration with Lance Redgewell at Cambridge Road in Martinborough. The wine combines Pinot Noir from the Cirrus Estate vineyard with a Pinot Noir Syrah blend from the Cambridge Road vineyard (where the two varieties are planted together). This makes it 93% Pinot Noir and 7% Syrah with a combined total of 37% whole cluster fermentation and partial carbonic maceration.
The cuvaison ranged from 14 to 25 days on skins depending on the portion and the wine shows a clear backbone and structure whilst still retaining a lot of elegance and a clearly-defined jawline. Aged in tank, there is no oak to detract from the fabulously concentrated, spicy, classical Martinborough Pinot Noir flavours, elevated by the fresh, floral chewiness of cool-climate Syrah. 
 
Tasting Notes 
A wine which comfortably straddles sweet fruit and savoury complexity with great control, it successfully blurs the lines between fine and natural wine; contemplative one minute and brightly effusive the next. A fantastic debut and hopefully not the last time we see this made.
Score: 17.5 – a very fine wine, flirting with greatness
 
Vineyards – Cirrus Estate (Dry River Gravel alluvial fan) Cambridge Road (Marlborough Terrace)
Whole Bunch Components 37%
Total Sulphites 25ppm