2006 Mt. Difficulty Pinot Noir Roaring Meg

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 88.1 points

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  9/4/2014 - MJINZ wrote: 89 Points

  Excellent

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  12/31/2009 - Polly wrote:

  Aah my last bottle Lovely with steak as it is a more complex pinot than some. Even better the next day with some good bottle age characteristics coming through. Still cherry's, cloves? brambles on the nose and palate but then followed by more savory notes. Good complexity. Pleased I opened it when I did I dont think any further aging would have benefited it Nice drop

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  5/14/2009 - tendring Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Wine Education Service - Central Otago - Wines with Latitude (LSE): Delicate bouquet of fruit with a little vegetal development.
  Fruity with great acidity, very soft tannins, elegant, not for keeping long.

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  2/17/2009 - wino_tim wrote: 90 Points

  Ripe, but nicely restrained with cedar-scented cherry, cranberry and strawberry fruit. Nice acidity on the palate helps balance the oak.

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  1/9/2009 - z_willus_d wrote: 88 Points

  1+ hr decant in a cold room; If Pinot wines were to come in three levels of darkness, the color of this would be of the 2nd. NOSE- medium intensity; light cherry, bramble, skillet smoke, baking spices, orange-zest, bathroom deodorant spray. PALATE- comfortable mouthfeel soothing my tongue, which I burnt on a too hot pizza slice earlier. Sour cherry flavors are dominating throughout with all the components mentioned in the bouquet showing at varying lesser degrees. A middling level of flavor intensity in this wine; tannins really not showing much at all, or they are extremely thinned out and integrated at this point. The finish is in keeping with the rest of this wine, middle of the road in length and complexity, tangy though; get a lot of the oranginess (and a bit of alcohol) at the end there too. Acid balance is a little tilted to the high side. Not as plush and elegant as I recall of the last bottle I tasted. Ho hum, but still a fair value for Pinot at this time.
  
  3-days later after this sat in my garage with a half-sucked vacu-cork, and this wine is impressing the socks off me now. Huge, complex nose / huge complex palate. Almost like a different wine or a super-amped version of the original; huge, juicy and delicious mid-palate. Orange-peel, interesting funk aspects (like a semi-rotten apple, but good), bacon-smoke, BBQ, cinnamon and spices, and a much longer more intense finish with whole cranberry sauce showing there. Great balance and focus. This breaches 90 points on day3. (I marked it at 86 after 1hr decant on day1.) What was it? The long slow decant in my garage?

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