Candied red cherry and raspberry. Like anything from NZ, very bright and lively. Seems to have lost a little bit of earthiness I've nosed before with the extra year or two. Drink now.
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It is a quality wine, here based upon the feel of low density mouthfeel... It was also refreshing somehow but unfortunately with a slightly too rustic finish.
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New Zealand Wines-Mostly Oyster Bay (SF Wine Trading Company): Medium ruby. Ripe, liqueur-like black cherry fruit. Relatively big and mouthcoating. Round, fully ripe fruit with a touch of smoky oak that expands toward the end. Very good in richer, New World style-little terroir to be found.
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Dark red color. For a pinot, surprisingly intense extracted dark red fruits (e.g. dark cherries) and even maybe some kirschy aspects. Acids still very aggressive, but tannins are robust enough to support a few years of aging, during which those acids should chill out a bit.
Chatted with the wine-maker a bit and he swears the distinctive black fruit here is purely terroir driven, not the wine-making style, which is the same as Kim Crawford's other wines.
Quite an interesting and tasty pinot variant, worth putting a couple away for a couple years and seeing how it all plays out.
Tasted at a Kim Crawford tasting event at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto
Trivial Addendum: A great wine to mess with people in a blind context as both the color and flavor are quite unusual for a pinot
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9/18/2016 - jmasterj Likes this wine:
Candied red cherry and raspberry. Like anything from NZ, very bright and lively. Seems to have lost a little bit of earthiness I've nosed before with the extra year or two. Drink now.
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2/20/2016 - Jona wrote: 90 Points
It is a quality wine, here based upon the feel of low density mouthfeel... It was also refreshing somehow but unfortunately with a slightly too rustic finish.
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9/28/2014 - drwine2001 wrote:
New Zealand Wines-Mostly Oyster Bay (SF Wine Trading Company): Medium ruby. Ripe, liqueur-like black cherry fruit. Relatively big and mouthcoating. Round, fully ripe fruit with a touch of smoky oak that expands toward the end. Very good in richer, New World style-little terroir to be found.
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10/3/2013 - kingcanute99 wrote: 88 Points
Dark red color. For a pinot, surprisingly intense extracted dark red fruits (e.g. dark cherries) and even maybe some kirschy aspects. Acids still very aggressive, but tannins are robust enough to support a few years of aging, during which those acids should chill out a bit.
Chatted with the wine-maker a bit and he swears the distinctive black fruit here is purely terroir driven, not the wine-making style, which is the same as Kim Crawford's other wines.
Quite an interesting and tasty pinot variant, worth putting a couple away for a couple years and seeing how it all plays out.
Tasted at a Kim Crawford tasting event at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto
Trivial Addendum: A great wine to mess with people in a blind context as both the color and flavor are quite unusual for a pinot
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