Nanny Goat Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024 from Central Otago is a beautifully perfumed, regional blend that nails that modern Otago brief – fragrant, vibrant and silky, but with enough structure to please the purists. Fruit comes off Nanny Goat’s Queensberry and Bendigo vineyards plus select growers across Queensberry, Bendigo, Pisa and Bannockburn, all hand‑picked and wild‑fermented for extra nuance.

The nose is packed with wild red and black berry fruits, red cherry and raspberry, tamarillo and dried raspberry, layered with lifted florals, dried herb, soil spice, toasted brown baking spice, cola, forest floor and a subtle earthy edge. On the palate, Nanny Goat Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024 is juicy and lively up front, brimming with wild berries, red cherry, plum and lightly roasted coffee bean notes, with sweet baking spice and cola through the mid‑palate, all carried by fine powdery tannins, a sinewy thread of acidity and a long, elegant, varietal finish.

This is a natural for roast duck or venison, mushroom dishes, charcuterie and hard cheeses, where that mix of fruit, spice and savoury detail really sings. It is equally at home with herb‑rubbed roast chicken, grilled salmon or a good Friday‑night pizza, and with 94 points and a suggested drinking window out to 2035, Nanny Goat Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024 works both as a classy mid‑week bottle and a smart cellaring candidate.