2014 Dry River Pinot Noir

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/21/2024 - rgawlowski Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Very nice fruit and acidity; very pleasant nose; all in all, very good but not great … seems consistent with Dry River wines; solid.

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  2/10/2024 - colinscellar Likes this wine: 92 Points

  It is a big Pinot, the colour is deep and the fruit is intense, but it's not due to excessive ripeness as the wine only weighs in at 13.5% abv and the fruit is tart and fresh.
  Sour plum, red cherry, cinnamon and earthy spice, a subtle fresh greenness that I'm guessing is whole bunch stalks. Lively acidity leads the way while the tannins are quite soft.
  An absolute pleasure to drink though I capped the score at 92 as, as much I enjoyed it, intellectually it didn't seem that complex but somehow was just bloody delicious anyway.

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  8/26/2022 - Mulvk Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Red fruit. Good acidity. Nice secondary characteristics . No rush for next bottles .

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  12/29/2021 - Yorgos Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Expressive nose with Pinot character and lovely aromatics. Layered and structure with velvety structure but perhaps lacking the depth you would expect from a wine of such caliber. The fruit hasn't developed significantly so there plenty of life ahead. 94-95

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  12/26/2021 - evanqian wrote: 95 Points

  Xmas Party 2021 (Forrest Hill, Auckland): dark red. breath in bottle for half hour. still tight tannins, very dense and concentrated, dark fruits, packs of dark herbals, intense savoury notes, mushroom, earth and meat. a bit mineral and salty adding another layer on the complexity. grand structure, long potential ahead (another 7 years probably).
  
  This wine shows how much can be extracted from NZ terroir (or just Martinborough), it shows a muscular style of NZ PN, has good concentration, strength, weight, length, full pack of flavours, and most important, a very high level harmony, smoothly running all together.
  
  RC 18.5
  
  Ap 5/5, Ar 13/15, Palate 18/20, Overall 5+4/10
  Total 95/100

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