2016 Sato Pinot Noir Pisa Terrace

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  6/12/2020 - matlee89 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  fresh, mineral, red fruit nose. Good balance and purity on the palate. Red fruits with hint of green. Juicy and delicious. Medium finish. Not what you expect of new world pinot - in control throughout, with the acidity keeping fruit and alcohol in check. Delicious and good value.

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  11/17/2019 - Beerzebub Likes this wine:

  P&p. Smells good - pure, fresh, focused, with good underlying depth; 'crystalline' dark-reddish fruit; nuances of stony mountain air, cocoa, flowers, tar. Similar flavors. Nice concentration, while staying fresh and lifted, with good acidity, and grippy but smooth tannins. Tasty, moreish, with some nice stony, earthy, slightly savory depth and complexity. Good stuff, and a good value considering the quality (paid 56 NZD).

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  12/12/2018 - grapenomad wrote: 91 Points

  Sato is like Wesley Snipes. You don't fuck with Wesley Snipes. Yoshiako Sato is a bit milder personality than vampire-slayin' Blade and he makes Pinot for a living, but he makes it in a way that make tears come to your eyes. Yoshiaki and his wife Kyoko have completed vintages together in Burgundy, the Loire and Alsace before moving to Central Otago. To this day they work under the mentorship of Pierre Frick, making around 1500 cases a year. Everything is they do is with the use of minimal intervention.
  
  Central Otago has been slept on way too long and is usually put in the same basket as Marlborough, being unrighteously dismissed as a region famous for fruitforward Pinot. This is not the case at all. Here you have some of the finest examples of Pinot ever. No, not in New Zealand. Ever. Earthy-red fruit character bursting out the glass with explosions of excitement in the mouth. Doesn't go on a ripe nature, but rather on a soft, lean & vibrant one. A surprisingly high level of tannins that sticks to the walls of your mouth and holds on all the way to the savoury finish line. This is serious stuff that will get anybody (even your grandma) to start appreciating Central Otago as a fine expression of this immaculate grape variety.

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