The Burn Cottage Moonlight Race Pinot Noir 2020 is a biodynamic wine from Central Otago, showcasing baked fruit, earthy aromas, and a ripe, juicy palate. With medium body, fine tannins, and savoury complexity, it’s aged for 12 months in French oak. A vibrant and mineral-driven expression of the region, it offers a balance of fruit and earthiness, perfect for drinking now or cellaring.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 93
Published: Nov 8, 2022

Blueberries, black raspberries, five spice, plum stones and ash on the nose. It's mineral and focused with a medium body and fine-grained tannins. Dark tea notes on a tight finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Decanter | D 90
Published: Nov 2, 2023

Baked fruit, charcoal, beetroot, wet earth and toasty, creamy aromas. On the palate, ripe and juicy fruit combines with pleasant savoury complexity.

Closure: Screwcap
Alcohol: 12.00%
Body: Medium
Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero

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The Moonlight Race name comes from a water pathway which passes through our Burn Cottage Property, one of the hundreds of water channels, “races”, which were created during the early years of European immigration to bring water down from the mountains around us. The Moonlight Race ebbs and flows during our seasons, its beginnings held in melted snow and rain high in the Pisa Mountain Range, 1100-1600 Metres above the Burn Cottage property. In our work with biodynamic farming, using the moon phases is an important part of how we farm our own property and vineyard.

Moonlight Race is solely about our three unique estate vineyards: Burn Cottage Vineyard in Lowburn, and the Sauvage & Luna Vineyards in Bannockburn. The combination of these three sites produces a vibrant expression of classic Central Otago Pinot Noir The wines were nurtured using our traditional care and attention, through Indigenous ferments in our winery, and bottled after 12 months in French Oak.