2013 Lethbridge Wines Pinot Noir Mietta

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 91 points

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  10/21/2023 - Keith Cooper Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Drunk with friends at dinner to accompany duck legs in plum sauce.
  
  This exceeded our expectations and is a great demonstration of how well a good quality New World pinot can keep. Opened and decanted 30 minutes before drinking. Light Burgundian colour. Soft and silky palate, dry, good red berry fruits. Medium length. Excellent.

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  1/11/2020 - Bearbus Likes this wine:

  More Pinosity than other Lethbridge's, showing more sous bois / mulch / red fruit. Cherry, mulchy undergrowth, gentle spices. Medium-full bodied, good acidity that runs right through, quite mouth-filling and grainy-textured tannins with some astringency, good length. Very nice. Best Lethbridge Pinot we've had. Get more

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  11/21/2018 - grapenomad wrote: 89 Points

  The first vines Ray and the crew planted were exactly on these dark basalt-derived soils of Mietta. Excellent concentration of flavours and texture is expected from this block. Ray states that 'it’s very mean, tight and ungiving at first, but it is the most subtle'. There is no winemaking recipe set in stone here, because every vintage is handled according to its own demands.
  
  Deep ruby in the glass. Aromas of dark cherry, blueberry, baking spices, cola and a bit of forest floor mixed with sea salt. Dense on the palate, not what I expected from it, especially after learning that this is from one of the coolest corners in Geelong and the winemaker's praise that it would be lean and precise. Precise, no doubt, but I have a feeling that the extraction could've been stopped much earlier. Underneath the big body, one can really detect the essence of what this Pinot was bound to be.

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  11/2/2018 - Social_Drinker Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Decanted 30 minutes. Drank with Zalto burg glass.
  Pale red with some sediments.
  Fruit driven yet some restraint, with ripe dark and red cherries and plums, sweet spices, dark soil, some stems and spicy notes.
  Integrated oak, high acidity, refreshing, medium + finish, 13.5% alcohol
  80% whole bunch this year. Each year is different. Very burg like. Very very good QPR

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  9/22/2018 - Keith Cooper Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Tasted at Caviste, Hampshire, UK, hosted by owner and winemaker Ray Nadeson. This is one of the top pinot noir wines in their portfolio, this is reflected by the price. Named after the owner's third daughter. The wine we tasted had been opened yesterday, double decanted and was drinking beautifully. Lightish fruit, gorgeous palate.

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