2001 Felton Road Pinot Noir Block 5

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  7/25/2017 - Burgundy Al wrote: 89 Points

  Fully mature black cherries and berries with both sweet spice and savory herbs. Good now, better a few years back.

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  8/25/2016 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points

  Epic Champagne dinner (Taberna, Bukit Merah): The simplest wine in its quartet of Pinot Noirs from around the world, but conversely also the readiest and most enjoyable expression on the night. It had a really seductive nose - sweet, floral and perfumed, with pretty accents of sweet red berries and cherries along with an unsual little twost of gingko nuts. The palate was rich, thick, with a rather new world viscosity to it. However, there was a layer of velvety tannins behind it all lending some stcuture to its sweet notes of dark berries infused with warm spice. A little heat and a green edge past the midpalate threw the wine off somewhat, before it regained a more pleasant poise and balance towards a full, creamy finish of sweet fruit and spice. Simple, and certainly not perfect, but this was an attractively soft, feminine expression that made for a rather delicious drink.

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  5/18/2016 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  Mainly Pinots Dinner with Peter Rosback: From (then) seven year old vines. New French oak 30%, whole bunch 24%. Under Stelvin cap (appropriately evolved). Voted wine of the flight by most at the dinner, including Peter. One of the WoTN. A savoury, dry nose of underbrush, tobacco, dry clay and dried herbs. "Rich, sweet, beautiful fruit with appropriate sourness from the acidity" said Peter. Savoury, tobacco leaf and mature red fruit flavours. The next day a gorgeous, still more autumnal nose. Fallen leaves and preserved red fruits. A little spice. Lovely evolved flavours. An early wine from this site showing the excellence of the Block 5 terroir.

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  7/27/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points

  Forest floor and boysenberry with some black cherry and dried herb aromas. Similar flavors with mature fruit a rich mouth feel and sense of minerality. Slightly advanced, I'd expect this might have been slightly better a few years back.

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  12/20/2009 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points

  Black berries, nicely mature with tarragon and thyme. Very good now.

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