Wine Maker's Dinner: Burn Cottage and Valli Vineyards (Ostro Brasserie and Bar, Auckland, New Zealand): The result of a collaboration between two of New Zealand's finest producers of Pinot Noir. The wine maker form Valli fashioned a wine out of Burn Cottage grapes and vice versa. The results are fascinating. Compared to the Burn Cottage bottle, this was picked 10 days later, with a correspondingly greater sense of ripeness and openess. The oak regime seems more apparent. This wine is also a little higher in alcohol. This is generous, delicious and forward and (as with all of the wines in this collaboration) very typical of high end Central Otago Pinot Noir. Drunk blind, this wine would likely be the preference of most tasters, but I found myself favouring the Burn Cottage wine, for its focus and clarity, in the end. My preferences were reversed for the wines made with Valli's Gibbston fruit. Here the wine made by Valli seemed more focused and complete.
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2/7/2017 - Pinotphile123 wrote: 91 Points
Very good but drinking too young.
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11/2/2016 - hanaleijim wrote:
Sold out...great!
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3/10/2016 - Marc wrote: 90 Points
Wine Maker's Dinner: Burn Cottage and Valli Vineyards (Ostro Brasserie and Bar, Auckland, New Zealand): The result of a collaboration between two of New Zealand's finest producers of Pinot Noir. The wine maker form Valli fashioned a wine out of Burn Cottage grapes and vice versa. The results are fascinating. Compared to the Burn Cottage bottle, this was picked 10 days later, with a correspondingly greater sense of ripeness and openess. The oak regime seems more apparent. This wine is also a little higher in alcohol. This is generous, delicious and forward and (as with all of the wines in this collaboration) very typical of high end Central Otago Pinot Noir. Drunk blind, this wine would likely be the preference of most tasters, but I found myself favouring the Burn Cottage wine, for its focus and clarity, in the end. My preferences were reversed for the wines made with Valli's Gibbston fruit. Here the wine made by Valli seemed more focused and complete.
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