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HowardNZ Likes this wine:

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - Mainly Pinots Dinner with Peter Rosback: My magnum was sealed under cork and wax. New oak 36%, whole bunch 20%. I didn't have great hopes for this wine and it did not look good when I double decanted it five hours early. It needed that as by dinner it had begun to open quite nicely. The bramble, black fruit and damp peaty earth aromas had most people thinking of Martinborough, not Central Otago Pinot. Similar flavours on palate with lots of black fruit, bracken, dark earth and liquorice. Pretty much there now for drinking. Rauno somehow picked the wine as an '04. Widely considered the wine of the flight. The rest of the bottle drank well the next day, just beginning to soften, with a hint of dark plums. Perhaps, being in magnum, this matured more slowly than a typical 750?

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