Felton Road MacMuir Pinot Noir, Central Otago 2022 Wine (75cl)

The wine

Felton Road MacMuir Pinot Noir, Central Otago 2022 Wine (75cl) is recorded as a 2022 other wine made from Pinot Noir in Central Otago, New Zealand.

Typical grape profile: Pinot Noir — Red fruit (cherry, cranberry, red plum), earthy and floral notes, silky texture. The finished bottle can differ with vintage and winemaking.

The vineyard evidence

The evidence link identifies MacMuir Vineyard as named-vineyard with high confidence. The vineyard record lists Pinot Noir.

Soil structure and vine density

Source-recorded ground: Bannockburn-series deep silt loams, with lake-bed clays, quartz sands, quartz and schist gravels, surface loess and calcium carbonate at depth. Geology: Fine tertiary lake-bed sediments with quartz and schist alluvium.

The description contains both coarse and finer material, so drainage and water storage may change between layers or blocks rather than behaving as one uniform soil.

Vine planting density: 4,667 vines/ha.. This describes vine spacing, not soil density.

A soil name is not a bulk-density measurement. BottlePicker only shows soil bulk density where a laboratory or modelled value exists. Texture interpretation follows USDA NRCS soil-water guidance.

Growing-temperature context

Pinot Noir: Cool-climate example; typically 1,800–2,500 growing degree days on the °F scale, equivalent to about 1,000–1,390 °C-days accumulated above a 10°C base.

Heat bands use Oregon State University Extension. The OIV climate method treats growing-season temperature as accumulated heat above 10°C, not a fixed daily target.