Fabulous rounded wine, drinking great. Well-balanced, starting with stone and quince and filling out with plush tropical fruit, namely ripe, juicy sweet pineapple.
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Dinner at the Bannockburn Hotel (near Cromwell, Central Otago): The winemakers were a bit put off by the oak evident here. Even with the decanting there was still some reduction on they nose, with spices, citrus fruit, peach and other orchard fruit, with some touches of exotic fruit. Racy, intense acidity on palate. Edgy minerality, as Andrew said. Limes, greengages and stone fruit. Very 2011. Clean and silky in the mouth with heavy Grand Cru dry extract. On palate I thought the toasty oak pretty well integrated and not overbearing. It was more detailed and non-linear than the Coche. However, the young Grand Cru is not yet the complete package. It needs another 3+ years to fully integrate I'd think. "A bit oaky but I like it", said Blair. Outstanding potential here, in my view.
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1/28/2024 - ledwards wrote: 92 Points
This bottle showing some age but the back-end was chock full of mineralality.
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6/13/2022 - sjwshiraz wrote:
Drank very well vs the ‘10 and ‘14, both of which were advanced
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6/15/2018 - ledwards wrote: 96 Points
Fabulous rounded wine, drinking great. Well-balanced, starting with stone and quince and filling out with plush tropical fruit, namely ripe, juicy sweet pineapple.
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4/22/2017 - Burgnick wrote: 85 Points
Way too ripe with low acidity. More like a 06 prem cru
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3/16/2017 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
Dinner at the Bannockburn Hotel (near Cromwell, Central Otago): The winemakers were a bit put off by the oak evident here. Even with the decanting there was still some reduction on they nose, with spices, citrus fruit, peach and other orchard fruit, with some touches of exotic fruit. Racy, intense acidity on palate. Edgy minerality, as Andrew said. Limes, greengages and stone fruit. Very 2011. Clean and silky in the mouth with heavy Grand Cru dry extract. On palate I thought the toasty oak pretty well integrated and not overbearing. It was more detailed and non-linear than the Coche. However, the young Grand Cru is not yet the complete package. It needs another 3+ years to fully integrate I'd think. "A bit oaky but I like it", said Blair. Outstanding potential here, in my view.
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