2010-BRODIE-ESTATE-Pinot-Noir

BRODIE ESTATE

2010 Pinot Noir

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin New Zealand, North Island
ABV 15%

James Brodie's impressive dry-farmed fruit makes for small berries and a deep-coloured, intensely flavoured wine. This is a Pinot which is dense and concentrated in a way rare in NZ, with a spicy fruit and great depth and length. Real 'winter Pinot', pefect match with stews or game. L&S (Dec 2012)


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Great fruit intensity straight off the bat here. Aromas of black cherry, blackberry and satsuma plum work their magic along with hints of clove, cinnamon, veal jus, kirsch and vanillin oak. There's a slight forest-floor flick to the fruit character on the palate, and the acidity is bright and prominent. Rating: 91 Nick Stock, www.jamessuckling.com (Oct 2014)

Lovely smooth, pure, silky, rich Pinot with elegant, ripe, smooth and sweet black cherry fruit. Brilliantly smooth mouthfeel. Fine and rich. Rating: 94 Jamie Goode, www.wineanorak.com (Oct 2013)

Sturdy, very ripe-tasting Martinborough red, harvested at 24-27 brix. Full-coloured and bold with concentrated, sweet-fruit characters of cherries, plums and liquorice and a spicy, savoury complexity. Rating: **** Michael Cooper - www.michaelcooper.co.nz/ (Feb 2013)

Brodie Estate

Brodie Estate is a family owned vineyard, based in Martinborough in the lower North Island. The vineyard sits on silts and clays with tight gravels below. Organic practices are followed, rotating buckwheat, plantain, lucerne and clover swards down 15 percent of the rows each year and using only organic sprays on the vines. Plants have been grown without irrigation. This enables production of small succulent berries with intense fruit flavours and savoury characteristics. The vineyard was planted in 2001 with 10 acres of Pinot Noir Dijon clones - 777, 667, 114, 115 and Clone 5. The clones were carefully chosen. Clone 777 has chocolate characteristics, Clone 5 brings spices, and 667 provides the full mouth characteristic of our wines. These are lended together to produce the single estate wine. The aim being to produce physiologically ripe fruit with a medium alcohol level.

The winemaking philosophy is based on allowing the fruit to express itself in the wine with very little intervention in the process. Two selected yeasts, are used, gentle basket pressing and 30% new French oak Gillet barrels for maturation over 12 months.

This results in a wine with soft tannins, a medley of fruits and a silky, sensuous expression, full in the mouth, spicy and savoury with good acid structure and length. The bouquet opens gradually as the bottle stands. Production is 1000 cases of premium pinot noir each year.

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