2019 Greystone / Grey's Peak Pinot Noir

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92 points

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  4/26/2024 - prasm wrote: 91 Points

  Consumed over 2 hours. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby-garnet with light edge clouding - appears surprisingly aged. Nose: Clean, medium intensity with developing aromas of cranberry, cola, brown sugar, and Asian spice. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium tannin, medium body, medium+ intensity, 14.0% abv with developing flavors of cranberry, cola, and Asian spice with a medium+ finish.
  
  Balance: Excellent
  Length: Excellent
  Intensity: Excellent
  Complexity: Very Good-Excellent
  
  Much more youthful on the palate than it appears visually, this is an excellent example of Waipara Pinot Noir - love the cranberry-cola thing going on here. Drinking well upon opening today, will likely drink well over next 3-5 years.

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  2/26/2024 - prasm Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Tasted at winery in Waipara. Appearance: Clear, medium ruby. Nose: Clean, medium+ intensity with aromas of cranberry, strawberry, nutmeg, rose petal, and tomato leaf. Palate: Dry, medium acid, medium tannin shows some youthful grippiness, medium body, medium+ intensity, 14.0% abv with flavors of perfectly ripe red fruit - cranberry & raspberry, spice, and nutmeg with a medium+ finish. Super fresh and approachable today with great complexity and intensity - wonderful wine.

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  2/9/2024 - GuanYu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium pale ruby red with pink rim. Red fruits, stewed strawberry, raspberry, farm yard, animal, toffee, honeycomb, mild tobacco, spices and wet stone. Medium bodied, medium-high acidity, medium tannin, medium structure, medium alcohol and long smoky finish. Bright, balanced, and vibrant.

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  12/28/2021 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  2019 Visit to North Canterbury, NZ: Greystone's pinot vines were mostly planted around 2005 and 2006 with Dijon clones the most common. Barrel tasting. Small pour. The first pour, from a third fill barrel. Pre-malo. Very deep colour. The nose difficult to assess, some violet petals, dark raspberries and black cherries. The palate also difficult to read. Bright and fresh, the acidity sharp actually, it needs malo. Gavin assessed that it "will be more velvety" when finished. The second sample - from a second fill barrel - was from 777 clone vines on clay over limestone. Whole bunch here 22%. Again, quite darkly coloured. A better sample with spice and black pepper aromatics and some lifted fruit. In the mouth, some nice rich fruit but prickly and also the tannins prominent (and malo affected). Overall, very hard to draw any firm conclusions, but potentially the blend may be a lighter bodied, relatively elegant wine, reflecting the vintage.

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