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, Vegetarian, Bio-dynamic, 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, Vegetarian, Bio-dynamic, Certified Organic
Focused, precise and herby, the 2020 Pinot Noir Netherwood has a vertical frame compared to the Pinot Noir Home. It is upright, like a soldier standing to attention. It's a wine that deserves time in your glass and your...(read more)
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com2019 RIPPON 'Rippon' Mature Vine Pinot Noir
South Island New Zealand 13.5% Red
Pinot Noir. Bio-dynamic
Firm and tight licorice, graphite, slate and light dried strawberry. Goes to iron. Flowers. Medium body. Creamy and fine tannins with a rather dusty finish. Fresh acidity and long and linear finish. Structured. From biod...(read more)
James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com2022 FELTON ROAD Pinot Noir Bannockburn
South Island New Zealand 14% Red
Pinot Noir.
Felton Road owns some of the oldest vineyards in the region, dating back to the 1990s, and is part-owned by Englishman Nigel Greening. Its near-cult status is due to pinots like this – inky purple and super-smooth, rich...(read more)
Susy Atkins, The Telegraph2021 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)
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous.com2021 FELTON ROAD Pinot Noir MacMuir
South Island New Zealand 14.5% Red
Pinot Noir.
The 2021 Pinot Noir MacMuir feels like a work in progress. It's initially a relaxed, fluid style, offering sweet red cherry fruit and showing youthful mocha-like oak, but it is not quite as refined in terms of its tannic...(read more)
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