Mari Magno is the new, first-level Pinot Noir label. This year's wine is based on fruit from POCW’s échalas (staked, bush-vine, co-planted) block, topped with fruit from the neighbouring young-vine block. It has had an extra 12 months in bottle because the team wanted to learn what this extra time would bring to a wine from these vines. Now we have the answer: it’s delicious! Expect a bright, juicy wine with layers of sweet fruit and plenty of aromatic complexity from its extra year in the bottle. In the future, Mari Magno will be a label that will allow the team at POCW to experiment and to declassify young-vine parcels, trial ferments, etc., that don’t make it into the top label but still justify bottling under Place of Changing Winds.

On the name: Mari Magno is Latin for rough seas. Those who want to take a deep dive into the inspiration for this label might Google the words Suave, Mari Magno, taken from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)—that great work of the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius. Simply put, the vineyard can at times seem like a ship tossed in wild seas, with nature throwing down challenge after challenge (as depicted by some of the elements on the label). At other times, thankfully, the sailing can be a lot smoother! - Producer Note