Muirkirk Vineyard on Felton Road in the Bannockburn, a delicate and balanced wine, soft with supple texture. Flavour wise its all about savoury complexity alongside darker fruit notes as per what Bannockburn delivers, alongside Muirkirk's trademark lush texture and delicate tannin structure.

The Muirkirk Vineyard is an old Cherry block which was replanted with Pinot Noir.

The soils here are a dense clay loam over gravels varying across the site with seams of calcium carbonate that run across the vineyard, the amount of clay that overrides this seam and the gravels beneath varying and consistent with the reputation of pinot noir in the Bannockburn, the wines powerful and deep-fruited.

Even if it is ironic that it took almost a Century to realize the profound and clairvoyant vision of the19th century Italian oenologist, Romeo Bragato, who when surveying New Zealand in 1895 wrote: “There is no better country on the face of this earth for the production of Burgundy grapes than Central Otago”.

Nothwithstanding their illustrative qualities of terroir, all three of the Mount Edward Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs are stunning, and if there is any thread of likeness, it would be in the ultra-silkiness of texture, to a point of precision and charm that would, and should, be the envy any pinot noir producer – anywhere.

It can be argued that Duncan Forsyth & his Mt. Edward Pinot Noir single vineyard wines are the reason why Central Otago wines are held in such high regards the world over.