New Zealand

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)

The 2022 Pinot Noir Cornish Point is an elegant, stylish wine with precision and poise. It tickles the nose with its fragrance, almost dancing up your nostrils, bringing woody green herbs to your olfactory. Christmas spi...(read more)

Complex nose that initially shouts dark chocolate and then opens up to show ferrous and pure red-berry vibrant aromas, earthy and tar notes (not unlike Barolo!). There’s a density to the palate, with a fine delineated bu...(read more)

The 2018 Emma's Block Mature Vine Pinot Noir is all about tannins this year. They swarm through the mouth with buzzing energy and movement and seem to be seamlessly attached to the flavor at every juncture. A wine that c...(read more)

The 2018 Tinker's Field Mature Vine Pinot Noir is rich and full—the wine is still stretched over its gray tannic scaffold (graphite, pencil shavings, black tea, star anise, et al.)—but it has flesh and bounce as well. Th...(read more)

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)