[SOLD-OUT] Felton Road Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2012

Gourmet Traveller 95 points!
"This wine shows berry/cherry and floral flavours against a background of savoury/earthy/spicy characters giving extra complexity. Firmly structured pinot noir that could benefit from time, though still quite approachable now."
Bob Campbell & Huon Hooke, GT Wine OCT/NOV 2013

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"A combination of one third of each The Elms, Calvert and Cornish Point vineyards, all biodynamic certified sites.

2012 was a 'very nice growing season, crystal clear days 26 to 29 degrees leading up to picking with night time temperatures all below three degrees. Cool leading up to the final months too, but flavour came with the last months. With ageing vines and biodynamics for ten years we think we are getting a more crystalline maturity to flavour, more delicacy and purity, more florals', offers winemaker Blair Walter. The wine spends 11 months in around 30% new oak, and with one racking to bottling tank and no fining or filtration for the end wine.

'Block 3 and Block 5 are the great sites', says Walter, 'but we produce all wines looking to distinguish single vineyard identity. This is essentially the wine that is declassified from our single vineyard wines that weren't selected for single vineyard wine labelling. Our Village wine, in a way'.

Spicy, cinnamon and clove meets sandalwood aromas with dark cherry/plum characters chiming in. Though brooding and dark in bouquet, it's a lighter and juicier affair to taste. Freshness lifts the wine, it's bright and finishes crisp and with building slate-like minerality and dryness, though there's a wash of fleshy, hedonistic fruit that sloshes around the palate before this. Pepperiness shows its hand too. Loose knit expression, with great vitality of fruit and a subtle complexity at play. A worthy addition to a collection of this wine.
Mike Bennie, Wine Front, 19th July 2013.

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  Organic   Biodynamic   Vegan-friendly   Sustainably-made  

Country:

New Zealand

Region:

NZ- Central Otago

Variety:

Wine Red - Pinot noir

Size:

750mL