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WE ARE DEVOTED TO PINOT NOIR. SMALL, FAMILY OWNED AND ORGANIC. WE GROW ONLY PINOT NOIR, NOTHING ELSE. www.devotus.nz
We are now sold out of the 2024 vintage.
Thank you to all our en primeur clients that purchased ahead of the 1st August 2025 release date.
Allocations are now available for the 2025 vintage. This wine is currently in barrel and will be released 01-Aug-26.
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Fragile. Handle with care. Every bottle.
30.07.2025 23:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Handwritten messages. Old school.
29.07.2025 04:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Careful packing. One case at a time...
28.07.2025 07:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 2024 vintage. Bottle no.24.
Hand numbering every bottle, ready for the release date next week.
Only a handful of bottles left of the 2024 Vintage. Release date 01-Aug-25.
04.07.2025 23:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are wine growers from generations of traditional famers. Don’s grandfather in a ploughing competition with his Clydesdale horses, 1971
28.05.2025 00:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On the job learning...
20.05.2025 01:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Less than 188 cases.
The Reserve 2024. Barrel to bottle.
#whenitsgoneitsgone #limitedproduction #qualitynotquantity
Back to earth. Back to basics.
Back outside, doing what we love…
Colours of autumn. All change.
12.05.2025 01:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Vineyard autumn colours. Watercolour sketches.
Art from the heart of the vineyard...
Rare moment. Sitting around doing nothing! End of harvest chit chat...
04.05.2025 23:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sea of nets. Ready to roll in…
04.05.2025 01:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Final clean up.
Putting everything away until the next harvest.
Steam clean. French barriques.
29.04.2025 00:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Barrel selection.
Only the best barrels for our winery.
A whole bunch of goodness.
Stealing some of the inter-row crops…
Vintage 2025.
Another family harvest.
Last of the summer. The final press.
22.04.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Constant gentle pressure. Until the very last drop.
18.04.2025 05:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Special delivery. Corks for the 2024 vintage. Barrel to bottle, ahead of the release in August.
17.04.2025 01:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Free flowing. Free-run juice flows naturally, before we start the press.
16.04.2025 07:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Weekend winery work. Treading grapes. Old-fashioned fun!
13.04.2025 06:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Listening to nature. Always busy.
11.04.2025 23:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sneak peek. Fully destemmed fruit, layered above whole bunch clusters, in the fermentation cuve.
08.04.2025 23:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Team of two. Daily discussions.
Working with nature means constantly adapting to change.
Similar but not the same. Every day is different. In the vineyard… in the winery.
05.04.2025 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunshine into wine.
The last picking basket of the harvest.
Dancing freely.
Delicately separating grapes from stems.
