FELTON ROAD
2015 Calvert Pinot Noir [Library Release 2022]
| Grapes | Pinot Noir |
| Colour | Red |
| Origin | New Zealand, South Island |
| ABV | 14% |
The 2015 Calvert Pinot Noir has a very classic nose that you could well mistake for a Pommard: redcurrant and cranberry, freshly tilled soil and a little earthiness that becomes more pronounced with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grained tannin. This is beautifully balanced and very harmonious, leading to a tender, elegant, impressively saline finish that almost belies its intensity and focus. Wonderful. Drinking range: 2018 - 2028 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Nov 2018)
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Fragrant, aromatic. Really rather refined and lovely. Gentle Pinot Noir rather than dramatic. Great delicacy – for New Zealand. Very long. Drinking range: 2017 - 2023 Rating: 17 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Mar 2017)
The crisp cranberry and pomegranate flavors are juicy and vibrant, with details of green tea, fresh earth and white pepper. Cohesive and harmonious on the long finish. Drinking range: 2017 - 2030 Rating: 94 MaryAnn Worobiec, The Wine Spectator (Feb 2017)
Felton Road
Felton Road and Rippon are undoubtedly the two leading vineyards in Central Otago, both making Pinots that are finely textured with fresh fruit flavours, rather than the 'fruit bombs' that so many others produce. Felton Road has been totally organic and biodynamic across their three Bannockburn vineyards since 2005. They have been certified by Demeter since 2009. After that there are more differences than similarities.
While Rippon, at Wanaka is on schist, Felton Road in Banockburn is on clay and calcareous loess. It is also very much in the rain shadow of the Main Divide. Irrigation is used at Rippon to help establish young vines, but dry farming is possible once the vines get their roots down, while at Felton Road permanent irrigation is required for the entire vineyard.
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