Mt Difficulty Pipeclay Terrace Pinot Noir 2009

Mt Difficulty's  Pipeclay Terrace Pinot Noir is a dense, powerful, concentrated, yet still elegant Kiwi Pinot style.

Fruit for the  vintage was grown on the estate's Bannockburn Pipeclay Terrace vineyard in Central Otago - a single vineyard wine only released in outstanding vintages.

Mt Difficulty was established in the 1990s by a group of four growers that formerly sold their grapes on, and were true pioneers of the Bannockburn subregion, harnessing a difficult but beautiful terrain overlooking the southern Cromwell Basin. Mt Difficulty creates a unique microclimate of low rainfall and humidity, with hot summers and a large diurnal temperature variation and long cool autumns; conditions that bring the best out of the fickle Pinot Noir grape, and perfect also for Pinot Gris, Riesling, and Chardonnay. Today, the estate owns some of the region's oldest vines, producing complex, concentrated fruit under fourth generation winemaker, Matt Dicey.