Community Tasting Notes 13

• HowardNZ Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 14, 2022 - 2019 Visit to Cromwell (Central Otago, NZ): Blair noted that 2007 was a cooler vintage but that the 2007 was picked a little riper than would be done today. A bouquet of espresso, brown spices, dried thyme and preserved cherries. On palate, lovely texture and mouthfeel. Underbrush, dried herbs and tilled warm soil. Fully mature, mellow and savoury. Two days later, finishing the bottle, the nose had turned even more tawny and earthy. Richard, tasting the last glass, noted it was “fresh, still good, primary fruit”. To drink soon.

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• Southern Wine Buff Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 2, 2021 - Patient cellaring rewarded with this lovely wine. Obvious aging in appearance, with a little browning around the edges and brick-red colour. Distinctively aged NZ Pinot nose, with some ripe cherry still hanging in there among earthy aromas. A trifle shy on the front of the palate, but a lovely integrated flavour explosion through the mid-palate, with ripe fruit, tannin and herbal notes (thyme) really in harmony, and drying on a lone and lingering finish. I tend to favour the best of Martinborough Pinot over Central Otago, but this really up there – close to being on par with Ata Rangi of similar age. Might hang on in there for a couple of years yet, but I doubt it will get any better than it is now.

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• Roland67 Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 3, 2019 - (from magnum). Surprisingly young. In a blind tasting I would never have guessed this to be 12 years old. The nose very giving with strawberries and iron. On the palate vibrant and powerful pure Pinot Noir fruit with a sweet candied wrapping. Typical Otago. Strawberries and herbal notes towards the end. Fine complexity and a medium long finish. A great wine. 93-94P

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• Louvin wrote: 90 points

  July 7, 2017 - I hr decant, this time the overall feeling is that this is just too large for itself, too candied for me.

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• Boatdrinker Likes this wine:

  April 17, 2017 - First glass surprised, as it tasted just like it did 5+ years ago, screaming Otago. After an hour, took on a much more aged character, plums and brown spices and earth.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2007
• Type Red
• Producer Felton Road
• Varietal Pinot Noir
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Block 5
• Country New Zealand
• Region South Island
• SubRegion Otago
• Appellation Central Otago

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• In Cellars 57 (45%)
• Consumed 71 (55%)

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