2019 Craggy Range Pinot Noir Single Vineyard Te Muna Road Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90 points

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  1/21/2024 - FraserMacmillen Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Solid red. On nose abundant fruit and pencil lead, which follows through on taste. Cherry, cranberry fruit. Soft tannins. Bit split on rating, 87-90, this is on the fruity side of pinot which for us tones the rating down.

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  12/26/2023 - Raizzon Likes this wine:

  Pale garnet. Red fruits - tart cherry and cranberry, tea, forest floor, a nice vaguely chalky earthiness. Balanced with a medium finish.

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  11/8/2023 - sdwineguru Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Fine Martinborough, NZ, 2019 Craggy Range Pinot Noir Single Vineyard Te Muna Road Vineyard ($43 Wine.com). Mid-dark ruby, rim variation, low viscosity (13.0 alc.); cherries, red fruit, smokey, oak nose; mid acids, tannins; balanced; nice structure and style; semi-long, semi-lush red fruit finish. w/salmon. 17 UC Davis scale, 92 other scales.

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  10/30/2023 - snamnoum@gmail.com wrote: 89 Points

  Light to medium ruby color and fairly translucent.
  
  Very clean, red fruited nose. Aromas of high tone red cherry, strawberry, mint, leather, maybe a faint hint of graphite and iodine. Not a lot of earthiness or tertiary elements.
  
  On the palate the wine is medium+ acidity, light bodied. Tannins are very delicate but the finish has a touch of astringency/ bitterness.
  
  Balanced, fruit driven, and light but lacking a bit in complexity. Not bad but better Pinots can be found at this price point.

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  10/26/2023 - EshwarS Likes this wine:

  Aroma of ripe red cherries and menthol. Rich fruit taste on the palate. Fine tannins. Oak is just a tad assertive but beautiful nevertheless. Acidity was well balanced. I wondered if the oak would round out by day 2, but instead it all but disappeared so the balance was lost and more edges stood out. Overall, I enjoyed it much better on day 1.

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