New Zealand
Whilst wine makers the planet over struggle manfully and optimistically to grow Pinot Noir, New Zealand has proved one of the few places outside Burgundy where Pinot Noir seems to thrive. This is especially true of Martinborough in the North Island and Central Otago in the South Island, where Rolfe Mills defied all advice to plant the region’s first vines back in 1975 and created the wonderful.
[Read more...]2020 HOME PINOT NOIR Black Estate
North Canterbury South Island New Zealand 13% Red
Pinot Noir. Vegan, Bio-dynamic, Vegetarian, Certified Organic
The 2020 Pinot Noir Home is a fluid, expansive style, that focuses on its supple texture. It blossoms on the palate, no doubt helped by its sedimentary clay soils. Both the acidity and its slippery clay-like tannic textu...(read more)
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com2020 NETHERWOOD PINOT NOIR Black Estate
North Canterbury South Island New Zealand 12.5% Red
Pinot Noir. Vegan, Bio-dynamic, Vegetarian, Certified Organic
The pretty fruit here is resolved nicely with the tannins, giving a sense of softness and finesse. It’s medium-bodied and chewy, showing lovely strawberries and some flint and crushed-stone undertones. Drinking beautiful...(read more)
James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com2023 FELTON ROAD Pinot Noir Bannockburn
South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir.
Perfumed aromas of wild strawberries, red raspberries, blood oranges and dried herbs. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and precise acidity, giving notes of blackberries, potpourri, wet bark, dark cherries an...(read more)
James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com2020 RIPPON 'Rippon' Mature Vine Pinot Noir
South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir. Bio-dynamic
From Lake Wanaka. Aged for 12 months in mostly old French oak barrels. Biodynamically farmed. Vibrant crimson. Pure, focused, detailed red fruit. Elegant. Sandalwood and spice weaving through the fruit in fantasti...(read more)
Oliver Coleman, www.JancisRobinson.com2021 FELTON ROAD Cornish Point Pinot Noir
South Island New Zealand 14% Red
Pinot Noir.
The 2021 Pinot Noir Cornish Point holds itself like a ballerina, poised and tall although this ballerina has more flesh on its bones than you'd see at the royal ballet. It has a curved mid-palate but stays light on its f...(read more)
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com2022 FELTON ROAD Calvert Pinot Noir
Central Otago South Island New Zealand 14% Red
Pinot Noir.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Calvert is an intriguingly fragrant wine, evoking the medicinal herbs of an Italian aperitivo alongside cherries, fruit cake and festive spices, which continue on the palate. It fills the mouth but do...(read more)
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