Mari Magno is our new, first level Pinot Noir label. This release, the wine is based on fruit from our ‘echalas’ (bush vine, picketed) block as well as other, neighbouring young vine plots. It has an extra year of aging because we wanted to learn what this would lend a wine from these vines. Now we have the answer: it’s delicious! Expect a bright, juicy wine with layers of sweet fruit and plenty of aromatic complexity from its extra year in the bottle. Going forward, this will be a label that will allow us to experiment and also declassify plots that don’t make it into our top labels.

On the name: Mari Magno, or rough seas, comes from a quote by Lucretius in De Rerum Natura, where the great Roman poet and philosopher describes the pleasure that we might derive from witnessing the struggle of others (what the Germans call “schadenfreude”). Here then, is something beautiful that derived from our struggles at Place of Changing Winds. We invite you to take pleasure in it!

Alcohol: 13.5%. Closure: Diam. Only 819 bottles produced.