95 points. Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate Feb 2025

The 2022 Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir is light and fine, with a delicate array of cherry, strawberry, red apple and freshly pressed linen notes. Woven throughout is sweet tobacco, graphite, white tea and finely ground pink peppercorns. In the mouth, the acidity works with the tannins to penetrate the palate with flavor, and it has an ethereal quality to it, which marks it as distinctly different from the Sauvage Pinot Noir. This is an eminently pretty Pinot Noir and comes highly recommended. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. 

Complex with dark cherry notes, violets and bright florals complimenting earthy, flint mineral tones and darker savoury character. Layered on the palate, this wine has a wonderful suppleness and depth of interest with expressive fruit and fine sinewy tannins. The palate shows length and concentration, and while delicious now, there is a definite promise of more with time. Cellaring potential 10-12 years. – Claire Mulholland, Burn Cottage

Perfumed and fragrant aromas of dark cherries, blackberry bushes, spices, wet bark and rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied with firmly integrated tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of redcurrants, wild raspberries, citrus peel and lead pencil. Refined and pure with an underlying power and tension. Drink or hold. 95 points. JamesSuckling.com Nov 2024

A punnet of fresh red berries, cherry bonbon, a little white pepper and spice, floral, with a mint and thyme perfume. It’s medium-bodied, soft and approachable, fine dusty tannin, a twist of orange peel lends some amaro bite, with a finish of excellent length. Kind of pretty and understated. Lovely wine all up. 94 points. Gary Walsh, The Winefront March 2025

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Burn Cottage is a biodynamically farmed, family-owned vineyard nestled in the foothills of the Pisa Range in Central Otago. Owners Marquis and Dianne Sauvage, visiting from the USA, were instantly smitten by the region’s beauty and the potential of Pinot Noir in this dramatic landscape. After years of searching, they found their perfect site in 2002—rolling hills, north-facing slopes, diverse soils—and began a new chapter. With guidance from Ted Lemon
(Littorai), they planted their first vines in 2003 and farmed the land organically and biodynamically from day one.
Today, winemaker Claire Mulholland gently steers this remarkable site, crafting wines with clarity, elegance, and soul. Pinot Noir is the estate’s centrepiece, joined by small parcels of Grüner Veltliner and Riesling. Burn Cottage is a rare and special place—one that radiates
beauty and purpose in every bottle.