Community Tasting Notes 17

• Vine wrote: 92 points

  February 5, 2024 - Approaching or at its best now. A very good new world Pinot.

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• MargsVF Likes this wine: 91 points

  February 2, 2022 - Clear, medium intensity and ruby in colour. The nose is clean, medium + intensity with primary aromas of floral violet, hint rose, red fruit with raspberry, red plum, red cherry. Hint strawberry and blueberry, herbaceous tomato leaf. Secondary aromas of oak with vanilla, cedar, hint smoke. Cream, butter and biscuit yeast and MLF. Hint of tertiary with earth and mushroom. The wine is developing. The palate is dry, medium + acidity and medium + tannins! Alcohol is medium. Body is medium +. Flavour intensity is medium + with all characteristics present, hint of additional stone/flint. The finish is medium +. The quality is outstanding, can drink now, has potential to age bit more. Beautifully balanced pinot noir with bit more tannins that complement the acidity. Nicely balanced in oak as well.

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• Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 points

  December 21, 2021 - New World Pinot Noir theme lunch at SSG. Tasted blind. Drank in Grassl Cru.
  Appearance is clear, medium intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of strawberries and ripe red cherries. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium+ alcohol (13.5%), medium tannins putting on more structure with more air, medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of sweet strawberries, ripe red cherries, black cherries with more air, ripe red plums, licorice sweet spices. Long finish.
  Very good quality. Still young and more or less still in a primary stage of evolution only. More age needed for sure.

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• melvinyeowq wrote:

  December 21, 2021 - New-world Pinot lunch: Most new-world of the line-up with the candied fruit and meatiness but still very restrained compared to the new-world Pinots that I cannot stand. Showed the most overt fruit of black cherries and alcohol but at the same time this still felt rather young and austere.

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• Mr Squiggles wrote: 90 points

  August 7, 2021 - The wine is losing its ruby red colouring and shifting to garnet, although there is still a hint of pink. The palate has savoury dark cherries and plums, with some development of autumnal leaves, although it is still early days. There is a notably long and warm, although not alcoholic, finish. For those who like an aged Pinot, it is entering its drinking window, but there is no need to rush. For those looking for fruit, you are drinking the wrong wine at the wrong time.
  
  Overall, a respectable and well made wine. But for me, not a lot of magic.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Rippon
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation Mature Vine
• Vineyard n/a
• Country New Zealand
• Region South Island
• SubRegion Otago
• Appellation Lake Wanaka
• UPC Codes 9418594000176, 9418594004006

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• In Cellars 346 (62%)
• Consumed 209 (38%)

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