2001 Bass Phillip Pinot Noir Premium Cuvee Rare

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  8/19/2009 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points

  Joyce's Birthday (Universal): Aging brown red.
  Tasted from bottle: lifted partially dried flowers, lightly forested, lightly perfumed nose. A beautiful lady with some hawthone candy flakes and stewed fruits, lively cherries, very defined acidity. After 10 mins decanting, this showed fresher hawthone berries, some tobacco leaves finishing with herbal tea leaves.
  Tasted after an hour decanting: Stewed berry tea, red dates and reminding me of 8 treasures tea. Slightly ferrous and some florals but lots of earthy masculinity too. This is like genetically modified burg that aims to integrate every terroir of burg into one: some said it was a chambolle, some morey, some vosne and also some volnay. Interesting.

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  8/19/2009 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Joyce's Birthday Dinner (The Universal @ Duxton Hill): Oustanding new world Pinot - and very Burgundian in style. This one fooled us all. William and Joyce who poured it into a decanter at first thought it was new world from its oak and sweetness. But an hour later when we poured the wine, we all had guesses of Morey, Vosne and Nuits St George. The nose on the wine opened with Chinese incense paper, all rather smokey, with mint and menthol along with some tobacco leaf, along with red fruit laying underneath and plenty of ferrous mineral weaving its way through the wine. In this aspect, it was not altogether dissimilar from the 2001 Clos des Tart that we had alongside. The only possible tell-tale that it was not a Burgundy were whiffs of a rubbery, cockroachy scent that I get in quite a few antipodean Pinots. Same thing could be said of the palate. Round, rich, balanced and complex. Clearly some extract, but not overly done, with deep flavours of sweet plums, strawberries and stewed berry tea pierced through by more of that iron minerality. A weighty wine, heavy-set and masculine, yet well-structured and certainly never leaden-footed. Finish was nice and cool, with more menthol notes, some spice, some orange peel and more of that rubbery scent. A very good wine.

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