[SOLD-OUT] Felton Road Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2014

Ray Jordan 96 points!
“Beautifully lifted aromatics. There is some nice spice and sour cherry, a hint of raspberry and sweet confectionery character. The palate has a deep lingering intensity with power and finesse. This is a classy wine of great poise and expression. There is a trace of minerality with schisty gravelly loam displaying a beautiful purity. This is from different vineyards in Central Otago, hence different soils with different rootstocks and clones adding to the complexity”
Ray Jordan, The West Australian, Septmeber 2015

Matthew Jukes 18+/20 points!

“It is clear from the very first sip that 2014 is a very successful vintage for Felton Road. This Estate (Bannockburn) cuvée is typically smooth, flavour-packed and yet tender already on the palate. The nose is a mass of swirling red and black berry fruits and there is a heavenly whisper of carpentry in the distance reminding you that the oak selection here is deliberately sensitive but also well-seasoned. This is a precocious wine, but I don’t doubt that it will shut up shop soon and slumber for perhaps a year, maybe less, while it aligns its chakra, so try not to dive in too soon. One of the problems with wines as balanced and honed as this is that they flatter and deceive. Exercise patience and the rewards are always greater.”
Matthew Jukes, 2015

Wine Front 93+ points!
“Rich cherry pie, thyme, fennel, spice and meaty complexity. Medium bodied, but plush with juicy cherry, some meaty reductive flavours, fleshy feel, silty tannin and mineral feel, balanced but firm acidity and again, that juicy almost tinned cherry flavour on a pretty long finish. Given a day’s grace and re-taste, the wine pulled more savoury and less flamboyant, auguring well for the future. Good release here.”
Gary Walsh, Wine Front, 2015

  Organic   Biodynamic   Vegan-friendly   Sustainably-made  

Country:

New Zealand

Region:

NZ- Central Otago

Variety:

Wine Red - Pinot noir

Size:

750mL