Medium red color with medium transparency. Sweet cherry, raspberry and strawberry notes on the nose. Sweet earthy notes join the red fruit at the core on the palate. The finish is well integrated and medium-long showing some vanilla and black tea notes. This was a better showing than a recent bottle and closer to the Block 5 in qualitative character. Drinking very well now and has good structure. Drink or hold.
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Medium red color with medium transparency. Ripe strawberry and cherry nose with some sweet vanilla notes. Palate has a strawberry-balsalmic flavor profile with brown sugar and some hints of celery salt that carry into a slightly sweet medium-long finish. Overall, very tasty right now, but I think my tastes are to drink this now and not hold it further. Structurally, it isn't going anywhere fast. Drink.
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This would be the most enjoyable NZ pinot I've been fortunate to drink. Lovely fruit still evident, quite rich in the mouth, cherries, toast, sap, long and lingering.
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DRC vs The World Blind Pinot Noir Tasting (St Regis): Elegant nose of cherry liquer. Cherries and some candy melded together. Very rich ripe fruits lingering on the finish. Some green apple notes as well, very beautiful wine.
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DRC vs the World Blind Tasting (St. Regis Hotel, Singapore): The oldest of the trio of Felton Road Block 3. This was a lovely wine, but somehow one got the feel that it did not quite hit the tremendous heights of the younger wines in the first two flights. Nevertheless, this was still an excellent wine. It had an enchanting nose of flowers, red cherries, gentle herbs and just a light hint of rubber. Beautiful stuff. The palate was a touch sweet to my taste, but it did have a delicious expression of juicy red fruit wed to clean acidity and nice round tannins. Lots of depth here. The finish was just as yummy as the rest of the wine, with more of that lovely fruit and then some spice and bramble. This very much bore the hallmarks that the other Block 3 wines showed - delicious and approachable without being simple. Lovely stuff.
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Pop n pour. Medium + garnet core with a youthful hue. The nose gains complexity with airtime, showing bright cherry, strawberry and red floral. More balanced and cleaner on the palate than the '03 Block 3, this shows better structure and smoother, silkier tannins, but also a nice punch of pure fruit. The finish is layered and increasing. Recommended, drink thru 2018.
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1/4/2020 - SUBAR Likes this wine:
Lovely. With roasted pork tenderloin and veggies. This is how I remember this wine tasting several years ago.
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3/16/2019 - Ardross Likes this wine: 94 Points
Outstanding- browning colour but under screwcap extraordinarily fresh deep cherry fruit too very long finish positively Chambolle like
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1/16/2017 - fredb Likes this wine:
Medium red color with medium transparency. Sweet cherry, raspberry and strawberry notes on the nose. Sweet earthy notes join the red fruit at the core on the palate. The finish is well integrated and medium-long showing some vanilla and black tea notes. This was a better showing than a recent bottle and closer to the Block 5 in qualitative character. Drinking very well now and has good structure. Drink or hold.
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9/5/2016 - fredb Likes this wine:
Medium red color with medium transparency. Ripe strawberry and cherry nose with some sweet vanilla notes. Palate has a strawberry-balsalmic flavor profile with brown sugar and some hints of celery salt that carry into a slightly sweet medium-long finish. Overall, very tasty right now, but I think my tastes are to drink this now and not hold it further. Structurally, it isn't going anywhere fast. Drink.
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5/3/2015 - Duras wrote: 95 Points
This would be the most enjoyable NZ pinot I've been fortunate to drink. Lovely fruit still evident, quite rich in the mouth, cherries, toast, sap, long and lingering.
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4/8/2011 - Mingmong wrote: 92 Points
DRC vs The World Blind Pinot Noir Tasting (St Regis): Elegant nose of cherry liquer.
Cherries and some candy melded together. Very rich ripe fruits lingering on the finish. Some green apple notes as well, very beautiful wine.
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4/8/2011 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
DRC vs the World Blind Tasting (St. Regis Hotel, Singapore): The oldest of the trio of Felton Road Block 3. This was a lovely wine, but somehow one got the feel that it did not quite hit the tremendous heights of the younger wines in the first two flights. Nevertheless, this was still an excellent wine. It had an enchanting nose of flowers, red cherries, gentle herbs and just a light hint of rubber. Beautiful stuff. The palate was a touch sweet to my taste, but it did have a delicious expression of juicy red fruit wed to clean acidity and nice round tannins. Lots of depth here. The finish was just as yummy as the rest of the wine, with more of that lovely fruit and then some spice and bramble. This very much bore the hallmarks that the other Block 3 wines showed - delicious and approachable without being simple. Lovely stuff.
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4/8/2011 - celk wrote: 93 Points
Burghound in Asia (DRC vs the World Blind Tasting) (St Regis, Brasserie Les Saveurs): Cooling with charming lychee and new leather scents. Modern and fresh.
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9/16/2009 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
Pop n pour. Medium + garnet core with a youthful hue. The nose gains complexity with airtime, showing bright cherry, strawberry and red floral. More balanced and cleaner on the palate than the '03 Block 3, this shows better structure and smoother, silkier tannins, but also a nice punch of pure fruit. The finish is layered and increasing. Recommended, drink thru 2018.
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