2010 Black Estate Pinot Noir Omihi, Waipara

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  2/14/2016 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Single Vineyard: Omihi Vineyard, Waipara, planted 1994. This bottle vintage 2010.
  
  Tasted Feb 2016. Room temp but not decanted, aired in glass only. Bought The NZ Cellar, London UK approx £24.00
  
  Love this wine, it has all the charm in the world. Top NZ pinot.
  
  Colour is a bit cloudy, not clear, muddy almost.
  
  Nose is lovely: wood, soft red fruits, some intensity.
  
  Taste is classy fruit, utterly smooth and rich yet with good acidity, long flavours, this is 'big' wine that isn't bold or clumsy, it's ripe and rich but has finesse. Nice floury tannins. A bit 'French' in character, even.
  
  I imagine it's gunna get even better, I won't open my next 2010 bottle until 2020. High alcohol. Eventual cellar maturity 2023?
  
  VFM? At £24.00 it ain't cheap, but I still reckon it's excellent VFM. Will buy again in future vintages (with an eye on vintage/harvest reports for southern hemisphere in Wine Spectator.com)

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  11/9/2015 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tasted November 2015. Room temp. Not decanted but left in glass for a while.
  
  Again, tasted too early. 2nd bottle I've had this year, couldn't resist it. I must leave remaining bottles for 2018-20.
  Rich, not as dry as I like my Pinot, but that's what happens when you have all that perfect fruit! Long, high alcohol, some warm spices on the nose, the colour wasn't fading at edge at all. This is 'big' wine, though no clumsy fruit bomb. Med-heavy body (for a Pinot). Just a hint of leather, a silken texture. Lots of cellar potential, it has oodles of power. Very well made.
  
  VFM? At £20+ it ain't cheap, but class costs.

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  1/31/2015 - Callum's Corkers Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Vines planted 1994. Big wine, medium-heavy body, 'big' for a Pinot, big even for a New Zealand Pinot. Dense. Essence of fruit, it cuts straight to the chase, some tannins, but not grippy, am drinking it too young - Feb 2015 - and it has heaps of cellar potential (drink late 2015- 2018) heaps of power, plenty of acidity to balance all that fruit, a long sustained finish, there is class here but it's big bold and rustic too, there is an earthiness to this wine - hard to find in New World Pinot, so one concludes is it perhaps a bit French in style after all (but with weighty ripe fruit)? I liked it very much. Can't wait for the 2013 and 2014 vintages, the two good Canterbury vintages following 2010.

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