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.
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2024 FELTON ROAD Pinot Noir Bannockburn
South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir.
The 2024 Bannockburn Pinot Noir is dark fruited and plush, with nutmeg biscuit and cranberry, blood plum and mulberry. The wine is exotic and peppered with baking spices—one assumes this is via the oak rather than the fr...(read more)
Erin Larkin, www.RobertParker.com
2020 RIPPON 'Rippon' Mature Vine Pinot Noir
South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir. Bio-dynamic
A cooler year, made even more difficult to manage because of Covid complications. Yet these are classical Rippon wines. An attractive mid-ruby color. The fruit comes out immediately, suggesting a wine to drink before the...(read more)
World of Fine Wine Magazine
2023 FELTON ROAD Calvert Pinot Noir
Central Otago South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir. Practising Organic
The 2023 Pinot Noir Calvert is a herbal, scented expression that gives the sense you've just crushed a bouquet garni. It's full, concentrated and sumptuous with ripe black cherries, raspberries and cream. Like...(read more)
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com
2022 FELTON ROAD Macmuir Pinot Noir
South Island New Zealand 14.5% Red
Pinot Noir.
The 2022 Pinot Noir MacMuir is a little reductive from the start, which initially mutes the pure fruit, but it shakes that off to reveal a tender, mid-weight wine with round shoulders. However, the conclusion has a sense...(read more)
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com
2016 RIPPON 'Rippon' Mature Vine Pinot Noir '10 Year Release'
South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir. Practising Organic, Bio-dynamic
No great density of colour, and one of the softer style bouquets. You have to go searching for it a little bit. Fresh cherry, a little strawberry, not quite complete through to the back of the palate, lighter on tannins...(read more)
Jasper Morris - Inside BurgundyORDER
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