2003 Quartz Reef Pinot Noir

Community Tasting Notes (12) Median Score: 88 points

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  2/12/2020 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Boys' Dinner (Grill Room, Hong Kong Country Club, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): Briefly unscrewed before drinking over the next 3 hours. Transparent lambs' blood colour. Nose is lovely damp woodland foliage and small wild strawberries. Palate is bright fresh acidity but balanced by medium weight sous bois, a lovely sweetness of confit wild strawberry and light soy sauce. Stays very powerful but elegant. Powerful and distinctive finish with seductive length and reverberance. Bought on release from the winery and still going very strong. It very considerably excelled a near-neighbour 2004 Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir I drank recently. 92+

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  12/26/2019 - extrafd Does not like this wine: 70 Points

  too old.

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  12/25/2019 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Christmas Day Lunch (Our House, Hong Kong): Decanted for an hour and then drank slowly over the next six.....and still going strong. Semi-translucent deep black cherry colour just starting to lighten to red cherry at the edges. Nose is deep dark black and red cherry, espresso coffee grounds, galangal, hints of garrique... rich, fresh and complex. Palate has a lovely depth and smoothness of mouthfeel, vibrant richness of black cherry and plum fruit, bright and fresh acidity, bitter espresso, high cocoa chocolate, good depth. Nicely rich and resonant on the finale. This just got richer and better with the extra hours after opening. The longevity and class of Rudi Bauer’s Pinots is really impressive.... this has 5-7 years to improve further I’m sure. 91+

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  4/14/2018 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Indian Dinner at Home (Our House, Hong Kong): First of a case - unscrewed to test for maturity against two similar vintage Aussie Pinot Noirs. Fully transparent but brightly jeweled and fresh-looking red cherry colour with just hints of amber. A quite muted nose with initial hints of vanilla pod , polished wooden furniture and some red/black cherry that gets more predominant with time and with sme dark milk chocolate emerging with extended time in the glass. Palate is immediately warm and welcoming melted high-cocoa dark chocolate and cherry cola. The cola element quickly disippates leaving a lovely dark milk chocolate. Slightly resonant but with lots of reverberance on a satisfyingly long finish. The colour is the only indication of its age...there are no tertiary elements on the nose or palate. Even better a few hours after opening, especially when paired with 36-month aged Comte cheese. Overall. a lovely harmonious and rounded Pinot Noir with 5-10 years' improvement ahead of it....kept for the cheese course because of its relative youth compared to the two Aussies. 89+

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  9/14/2008 - Paul D wrote: 87 Points

  Medium/deep ruby, pale ruby rim. Fruity, black cherry nose, quite intense, some toasty oak. Juicy black cherry fruit on the palate, vanilla notes, decent depth of fruit, soft tannins, a touch of savoury complexity and then a decent length black fruit finish. Well balanced and enjoyable if lacking a little complexity and interest.

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