Dark fruits, tasted with two Felton road (block 5 and Calvert), more herbals and spices, dense and tannic. Showing more strength but less harmony, huge potential ahead, need time to mellow.
Ap 5/5, Ar 13/15, Palate 16/20, Overall 4+4/10 Total 92+/100
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Six top Martinborough pinots at the The Wine Bank (Martinborough, New Zealand): Small sample. Brief note. Very dark but bright ruby. A different, more polished bouquet of Christmas cake spices, very dark fruit, liquorice and a hint of violets. A seamless, opulent, dark fruited entry to the palate. Sweeter-seeming than the other wines. Blackberries, dark plums, espresso and liquorice. Concentration and power with some tannic grip on the finish. The least evolved, most primary wine of the six. It's not, by any means, bad, just, for me, the least of a very strong set of six wines. It's a good New World pinot but perhaps a little anonymous, not - to me - speaking strongly of Martinborough terroir. However, it's young. A wine to cellar 5+ more years, I think. My rating 6/6.
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Negociants Australia New Release Tasting 2019: Cherry, stalks, red currant. Good savoury palate with some of the herbs and earth melded together. Like the profile and the cut of this.
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Monthly Tasting Group HWS #137; New Zealand: Strawberries, raspberries and fresh cherry fruits in the bouquet. On the palate juicy fruits, a bit like lemonade, but also good complexity and acidity. Some pleasant sweetness and slightly drying in the finish. Beautiful wine with a future of 5+ years.
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PNP into Spiegelau tasting glass (“Root” day): To the eyes medium purplish ruby, quite a lot of legs too.
Juicy, airy blue and black pinot fruits that reminds me of the Ribena drink, some red cherries too, though not at all candied and unpleasant. At this stage, it is more fruit forward with some underlying Subtle florals and spices. (Profile not dissimilar to the 2 great Berthaut-Gerbet Gervey tasted before?)
On palate good acidity with ripe and suave tannins. Fruit flavours evident in the entry but slowly transitioning to the subtle spices and florals towards the end. Good balance overall.
Very enjoyable now but it is also clear that this will benefit with 5-7 years of cellar time. 92 points.
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12/29/2020 - evanqian wrote: 92 Points
Dark fruits, tasted with two Felton road (block 5 and Calvert), more herbals and spices, dense and tannic. Showing more strength but less harmony, huge potential ahead, need time to mellow.
Ap 5/5, Ar 13/15, Palate 16/20, Overall 4+4/10
Total 92+/100
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11/27/2020 - melvinyeowq wrote:
Similar to the 2010 that I tried last week but with a little more fruit. Dark and plummy, a little simple. Still would not have guessed it as a Pinot.
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11/23/2019 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
Six top Martinborough pinots at the The Wine Bank (Martinborough, New Zealand): Small sample. Brief note. Very dark but bright ruby. A different, more polished bouquet of Christmas cake spices, very dark fruit, liquorice and a hint of violets. A seamless, opulent, dark fruited entry to the palate. Sweeter-seeming than the other wines. Blackberries, dark plums, espresso and liquorice. Concentration and power with some tannic grip on the finish. The least evolved, most primary wine of the six. It's not, by any means, bad, just, for me, the least of a very strong set of six wines. It's a good New World pinot but perhaps a little anonymous, not - to me - speaking strongly of Martinborough terroir. However, it's young. A wine to cellar 5+ more years, I think. My rating 6/6.
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9/10/2019 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
Negociants Australia New Release Tasting 2019: Cherry, stalks, red currant. Good savoury palate with some of the herbs and earth melded together. Like the profile and the cut of this.
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9/10/2019 - chatters wrote:
Blackberry, pretty, slight whole berry, slight spice. Slightly sour black fruits, wetly juicy, front of mouth grip. Okay.
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3/13/2019 - Zweder wrote: 91 Points
Monthly Tasting Group HWS #137; New Zealand: Strawberries, raspberries and fresh cherry fruits in the bouquet. On the palate juicy fruits, a bit like lemonade, but also good complexity and acidity. Some pleasant sweetness and slightly drying in the finish. Beautiful wine with a future of 5+ years.
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5/27/2018 - Tony Ling Likes this wine: 92 Points
PNP into Spiegelau tasting glass (“Root” day): To the eyes medium purplish ruby, quite a lot of legs too.
Juicy, airy blue and black pinot fruits that reminds me of the Ribena drink, some red cherries too, though not at all candied and unpleasant. At this stage, it is more fruit forward with some underlying Subtle florals and spices. (Profile not dissimilar to the 2 great Berthaut-Gerbet Gervey tasted before?)
On palate good acidity with ripe and suave tannins. Fruit flavours evident in the entry but slowly transitioning to the subtle spices and florals towards the end. Good balance overall.
Very enjoyable now but it is also clear that this will benefit with 5-7 years of cellar time. 92 points.
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