[SOLD-OUT] Felton Road Cornish Point Pinot Noir 2017

Gourmet Traveller Magazine 97 Points!

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"Clearly a very successful vintage for Felton Road. Supple, elegant pinot noir with a sumptuous texture and floral, plum, dark cherry and oriental spice flavours. The wine has an extraordinarily lengthy finish – a sign of a real power. Accessible and appealing wine."

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Gourmet Traveller Magazine, March 2019

 

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"Intriguing smell. Spice, fennel, coffee beans, plum. Bright, quite sappy and dried herb flavoured, almost into black olive, savoury style, with bony tannin and good length. Structural thing."

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Gary Walsh, Wine Front, September 2018

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"Felton Road farms four properties totaling 32 ha in the Bannockburn sub-region of Central Otago. This wine is from Cornish Point vineyard where the close proximity to water creates a unique mesoclimate. Meticulous summer management of a single vertical shoot positioned (VSP) canopy ensures even and early fruit maturity. Shoot thinning, shoot positioning, leaf plucking, bunch thinning and harvest are all carried out by hand to ensure optimum quality fruit. Cover crops are planted between rows to assist in vine balance and to improve soil health and general biodiversity.

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Ripe plum and an earthy savouriness are complimented with mocha and rose petal. The immediately inviting and generous mouthfeel is in the usual extroverted Cornish Point manner. However, every component is in superb balance with not a step out of place: a sign of things to come as vine age starts to dominate in this vineyard. Chocolate nut tannins flow across the palate building presence and scale. Like a favourite soft and comfortable sofa: easy to melt in to!"

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Felton Road

 

  Organic   Biodynamic   Vegan-friendly   Sustainably-made  

Country:

New Zealand

Region:

NZ- Central Otago

Variety:

Wine Red - Pinot noir

Size:

750mL