2006 Cornish Point Pinot Noir

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  5/29/2014 - M.Batard wrote: 87 Points

  Medium bodied and dark ruby. Agree with Cleric John that the dominant tone is dry, sour cherry. Very Burgundian in the bad sense: barely pleasant wine that cost too much and had high expectations. We had this at the end of dinner after '05 Le Cadeau (Oregon) and '09 Au Bon Climat (CA/Santa Barbara), both of which were delightful with grilled salmon.

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  2/14/2012 - Oh Dae-su wrote: 87 Points

  At first the Kiwi Pinot was rather stinky, full of cow shit, and showed additional scents of bright cherries, biscuit cake and impressions of sweet-sour-sauce. After some hours a more fruit full character developed. Not very perfumed or elegant! More a bit stubborn and almost one dimensional. The taste showed intense raspberry and bright cherry flavours, hints band aid, some smoke, diffuse herbal aromas and quite a lot of fruit sweetness (very close shave, but still acceptable). The acid is OK, the concentration good and the alc. relatively well integrated. The balance is OK, nothing extraordinary. Probably a fine and well produced Pinot, maybe a bit slick and aseptic. The QPR is questionable. From a Pinot for well beyond 30 Euros one might get a rather different expectation than just such mediocre attributes. Just a fine, well produced, uncomplicated and quaffable wine won’t do it. Not bad, but not recommendable!

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  10/14/2010 - clericjohnbrown wrote: 83 Points

  Decent enough wine. Shows well on the nose with dry tart cherries, and a little tar and earth, as well as on the front palate with fresh dark cherries and bright acidity, but falls off on the finish.

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  3/22/2010 - boodra wrote: 89 Points

  Delicius. Aromatic, spicy, fresh and fruity. Starts of with fresh strawberry fruit, but develops a more thick cherry fruit feel. More powerful than elegant (for a Pinot) and there is a little to much alcohol heat, not entirely balanced, but still and excellent bottle. Not the best value though, i was expected a little more. Maybe it needs a little time?

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  10/30/2009 - Paul S wrote: 90 Points

  Dinner at Edmund and Shuming's (Edmund and Shuming's place @ the Marbella): A Felton Road wine in disguise (more on that later), this was surprisingly Burgundian and rather good indeed. Just a little too volatile once the screw capped was opened, but it gave plenty of pleasure when it was on its game. Nose could have easily been mistaken for a ripe Vosne-Romanee at first pour, with sous bois, truffles, meat, bramble, wood spice and ripe dark cherries giving the wine a really nice aromatic character. Not too bright, not too sweet - all very attractive. Palate was a little more clearly new world. Meaty notes with ripe cherries where wrapped in a rich plushness with plenty of underlying sappiness laced with touches of alcohol. At 14% this was a big Pinot. Still thought, it was far from some, say, Californian or Oregon monsters. This still had a nice and clean feel, with a smooth, silky texture and really good balance - it was almost light for a wine of its size. Finish was nice and longish too, with notes of orange peel, ripe red fruits and bittersweet wood spice. With time the back palate opened into even more woody notes along with ripe red fruits - almost raspberry gummy like. No great complexity on this wine, and it fell apart too quickly for my taste, coming apart about an hour after pouring. Still - there a lot to like here. 90+
  
  Cornish Point vineyard has been a Pinot Noir experiment area for the last 10 years or so, where the Felton Road team tries out different clones and rootstocks to try to figure out what marries best with the terroir. Fermented with wild yeasts, aged in French Oak and unfined / unfiltered, the wines have been bottled seperately and sold slightly cheaper than Felton Road up to the 2006 vintage. Most likely due to the younger vines, I found this bottle to be more forward and a bit less complex than what one would expect from the other Felton Road "1er Cru" single Block labels. I understand some of the wine from Cornish Point has been bottled as a Felton Road single vineyard wine from the 2007 vintage onwards.

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