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• Rote Kappelle wrote: 86 points

  July 9, 2021 - From screw cap, undecanted, about 30 minutes open in a Riedel Burg glass.
  
  The numeric score reflects the Cellar tracker rating system, so it means I think this wine is very good and noting the price about as good as one has any right to expect.
  
  For a budget Pinot, you are getting good quaffing. I don't like the oak treatment, which provides too much smokiness/char and some distracting (to me) pencil shaving, as well as some oak derived 'lift'. This wine has just been released and with a few months it may settle down and integrate more. The palate yields a bit more fruit than the oak encased nose- dark cherry and there is admirable persistence and intensity. How you feel about oak will determine how you feel about this wine, at this point at least. I will add that I have been accosted by plenty of Burgundy that is of Village level or higher that is no better than this (but a damned sight more expensive) and is just as reliant on oak and extraction to cover for fruit of moderate/quaffing wine quality.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2019
• Type Red
• Producer Isabel
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country New Zealand
• Region South Island
• SubRegion Marlborough
• Appellation Marlborough
• UPC Code 727760509948

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• In Cellars 5 (71%)
• Consumed 2 (29%)

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