Mysterious Diggings comes from an exclusive Bannockburn vineyard sited between Burn Cottage and Felton Road in Central Otago, planted in 1999 to a mix of Pinot Noir clones on their own roots and farmed organically. The schist-derived, free-draining soils and Bannockburn's hot, dry days and cold nights concentrate the fruit, giving a core of dark fruit, earthy beetroot and exotic spice with a silky texture. The 2025 vintage is the follow-up to the celebrated 2024, carrying Central Otago's clarity and acid line into a wine that again expresses the site's aspect, vine age and microclimate.

Fruit was hand-picked and carefully sorted, then wild-fermented in small batches with gentle, minimal-intervention handling. Cold-soaked before indigenous-yeast fermentation, the wine was pressed to subtle French oak, a modest portion of it new, for maturation and a natural malolactic fermentation, before a light bottling. The approach favours fragrance, silky texture and fine, savoury tannin, letting the vineyard's dark fruit, earthy and spiced character carry through to a fresh, layered finish.