2014 Rod Easthope Pinot Gris
Community Tasting Note
Callum's Corkers Likes this wine:
Saturday, January 31, 2015 - Hawkes Bay fruit. This guy used to make wine for Craggy Range.
Slight onion skin colour, attractive. Hints of lychees on the nose, but it is not intense or complex. Simple, clean, correct Pinot Gris fruit: 'does what it says on the tin.'
In the mouth it is medium body, clean simple wine, well made, nice fresh acid, lively, a nice acid lick at end. Off dry. Nice lemons and fruit, no almond complexity or fullness like, say, Mt Difficulty, it isn't in that class but neither is it in that price range, it is half the price at approx £9.00 British sterling. So, a bargain.
Great value-for-money. Drink it now while it is fresh, it hasn't the complexity to develop hugely in the cellar, so why wait? It's good now. Will be buying again.
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Comment posted by Doggerel:
6/19/2015 1:18:00 AM - Can't improve on Callum's review - it is spot on.
Comment posted by Callum's Corkers:
7/6/2015 11:35:00 AM - Cheers, Doggerel. I'm a fan of Easthope. I have his '13 Pinot Noir, but as yet - of course - haven't gone near it. A few yrs back he made a Gatecrasher HB Sav Blanc; incredible intensity and power (for a Savvy outside/north of Marlborough). It got my attention, and once he joined/was funded by Naked Wines UK I have been following him since. Naked Wines - now part of Majestic, but with no apparent plummet in class - are producing some amazing winemakers: Small & Small's 2014 Sylvia Reserve Awatere Valley Sav Blanc won a Gold and a trophy at Decanter Wine Awards 2015. Not bad for a £10 wine.