Cameron Douglas: ME by Matahiwi Pinot Noir, 2024

ME by Matahiwi Pinot Noir 2024, Wairarapa  

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This is a complete wine from nose to palate with a generous core of red berry fruits flavours, a decent structure with fine tannins that are easy to dissolve on the palate, and a fresh line of acidity both framing the fruit core.  

Crunchy, fresh, fruity, varietal and loaded with flavours of cherry and fruit spice. Low oak, tautness from youthful, polished tannins and BB of acidity.   

  

Food:  

I think best enjoyed with a range of aperitif foods like arancini with a little kalamata olive inside. This is also very good with prawn ravioli dressed with a crayfish bisque sauce and cherry tomato. Or a simple Cacio Pepe spaghetti dressed with parmesan cheese and olive oil.   

  

The Vintage:   

In the Wairarapa: Rather excellent with a very good flowering and fruit set. Careful vineyard management led to a great harvest and subsequent winemaking meant the measure of winemaker inputs like wood were very judicious and alongside the level of tannins, acidity and fruit make for a love wine to look out for.  

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks AB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
For his wine of the week, our Master Samalier, Cameron
Douglas has chosen me. I know that seems confusing, but
me is the name of the wine. It's my mother
he weed. It's a pin and Wi from last year,
twenty twenty four, the white at Upper Cameron's with us
this morning. Good morning, Good morning Jack. If you're well,
yeah you too, so tell us about the wine. Tell
us about me.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's such a fabulous name for a pin and noir,
isn't it, Because it is all about me? As you stated,
this is what I call a complete wine because anybody
that wants to segue from white wine into red wine
but don't want to go too big and too heavy,
this is the right wine for you. It's complete because
it's got all of these structural elements that frame a

(00:59):
lovely core of fruit. And what I mean by structural elements,
it's just they've gotten some nice fine tannins which give
that mouth feel, and what I call dissolvable tnnons, So
all of that protein in your saliva dissolves these tannons
into nothing very slowly. But effectively. And then this line
of acidity both together frame this core of fruit which

(01:21):
is crunchy fresh cherries and sort of that old strawberry
kind of mouth feel flavor profile. It's quite delicious, but
very light on its feet as well.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, nice, it sounds amazing. What would you match it with?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, I call it a porch pounder, meaning that you
can just smash a couple of glasses out whilst you're
just watching the sunset. So I would match it with
a pairite food, something that you would eat while you're
on the back deck looking at the sunshine. So things
like aaron chiny that's got a little calamata olive in it,
because you need that little salt kick inside the rice,

(02:02):
aaron chini balls. And it's also very good with things
like prawn ravioli with a little bit of bisc type
sauce on. There's a little bit of richness but not
too much. And that there's this bridging ingredient in food
and wine pairing, or many and one of them is
tomato and cherry. Tomatoes are excellent at producing the links

(02:25):
between food and wine together. And if you want to
go something simple without protein, just go with a catchier
peppi spaghetti spread with a little bit of parmesan cheese.
It's really really lovely with a wine like the mattahiwe Pinot.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, how was the twenty four vintage and one.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Another Well, ultimately it was a slightly smaller vintage but
high quality. They had really really good what we call
flower set, giving slightly smaller bunches, but ultimately high quality.
And when you combine that with good vineyard management that
they do at Mattahiwey Estate, you produce wines that have

(03:04):
this lovely level of concentration, mouthfield and lengths. So a
really really lovely wine to think about over this weekend
and next week.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Fantastic, Thanks Cameron. Cameron's picked for us this week is
Me by Matahiwee. It's a pen and noir from twenty
twenty four and wind it up at The Details will
be on the News Talk's EDB website for

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