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    Sharing a moment over a refreshing white. The best way to spend an afternoon.

Select Blocks Pinot Noir

This wine has seduction on its mind. It wants to bewitch you with spicy berry flavours and a little toasted oak. It’s also a great keeper, if you’re disciplined enough to keep a wine cellar.

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Cellaring

This seductive wine can be enjoyed immediately or may be cellared for at least 5 years.

Tasting Notes

The Ara Select Blocks Pinot Noir exhibits succulent boysenberry and cherry aromas lightly seasoned with toasted oak and framed by long fine grained tannins.

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Our favourite meals

Sticky Hoisin Pork.

Keep this meal light by serving along side some steam Asian greens like bak choy choy sum and gai larn.

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Select Blocks - Pinot Noir

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Birthplace: In the heart of Marlborough wine country

The purest distillation of Ara’s brand philosophy yet, Ara Marlborough wines have been hand selected from grapes across the Wairau Valley, finely crafted to offer a balance between the renowned Marlborough fruity vivaciousness.

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