Community Tasting Notes 55

• F1NUT Likes this wine: 95 points

  December 4, 2019 - Sensational Pinot! Nose of cherries and red berries is very inviting. The palate opens strongly with a ripe melange of red plums, raspberries, cherries together with some spices. This is maintained through the mid and back palate finishing fruity and clean with a good level of acidity. I notice during decanting the tannin deposit is significant for a Pinot but quite fine. I suspect very good winemaking here with perfectly ripe fruit and some proportion of whole bunch pressing. The result is marvellous at this age due to screwcap closure. Totally impressive and enjoyable.

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• LindsayM Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 21, 2017 - Excellent colour slight browning on rim
  Nose cherries and spice wonderful Martinborough complexity
  Palate complex with Long silky finish fantastic balance
  Overall just as I had hoped beautiful

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• Keith Cooper wrote: 85 points

  April 20, 2015 - I see my last note of 2011 said this was nearing its peak. So it is fitting that I drank my last bottle alongside three other oldish NZ wines to see how well they age. Opened 90 minutes before drinking, it was fully opened, no tannins remaining but still good fruit. My notes suggest the last bottle was better back in 2011, but nevertheless this has held up well and was an interesting experience to drink.

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• graemeg wrote:

  March 27, 2015 - {screwcap, 14%} Garnet, but clearly aging, with that browning transluscence that gives it away. Nose is a mixture of sweet aging strawberry fruits and tobacco/pastrami notes. The palate is nearly deviod of tannins now, attractively flavoured, with medium acid, and near-medium weight, but despite its very pleasant drinking qualities, the vibracy of youth has faded without really making way for the complexity of old age. This leaves it, if not exactly hollow, just somehow faintly disappointing, in that you expect a bloom of something wonderful after your mouthful of wine, and then it never materialises. So near and yet, so far. Better at 5 years than ten, then, probably; that's the rule here.

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• Bizzobazz Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 8, 2015 - One of the best pinot's I've tasted. Went superb with barbecued quail on pearl cous cous

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Craggy Range
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Single Vineyard
• Vineyard Te Muna Road Vineyard
• Country New Zealand
• Region North Island
• SubRegion Wairarapa
• Appellation Martinborough
• UPC Code 690300550611

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• Pending Delivery 5 (1%)
• In Cellars 219 (39%)
• Consumed 333 (60%)

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