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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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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