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Domaine Armand Rousseau Grand Cru
By Farr Tout Prés Pinot Noir
By Farr Tout Près Pinot Noir is pale ruby colour with medium intense aromas of crushed raspberries, beets, loam, truffles and a hint of lavender. Crisp with a medium level of fine tannins matched to the concentrated fruit, it has a long minerally finish.
Home Hill Kelly's Reserve Pinot Noir
This Home Hill Kelly's Reserve Pinot Noir is made from selected parcels of fruit from the Home Hill vineyard. Complex aromas of violets, red and dark fruits and spice follow through to the palate where dense tannins and supportive French oak create a poised and structured wine.
DuMOL Finn Pinot Noir
Quartz Reef Bendigo Estate Single Ferment Pinot Noir
Aromas exhibiting spiced, wild berries. Opulent and rich on the palate with notes of dark cherry, blackberry and liquorice. Silky tannins with a muscular structure and impressive length. Deep ruby-red in colour. Pinot Noir It is now well established that Central Otago produces outstanding Pinot Noir and Quartz Reef is no exception. Firm and intense with notes of ripe black cherry, pomegranate and spice, the maturing sun drenched slopes of our Bendigo Estate vineyard continues to produce Pinot Noir of exceptional expression and structure. The Quartz Reef Pinot Gris is made in a rich bone dry style which compliments foods of all flavours. Quartz Reef Methode Traditionnelle is a wine of distinction, made in the traditional method to achieve elegance and finesse. Focused, fresh and crisp with a beautiful balance and length. Easily New Zealand's most Champagne-like Sparkling Wine.
Verget Pouilly Fuissé Terres de Pierres
Domaine Antoine Jobard Beaune 1er Cru Epenottes
Antoine farms a good plot of vines that are close to 40 years old. It’s just under a hectare, right on the border with Pommard. There is plenty of clay, and the wine is layered and hedonistic. It is the only red in our allocation fermented with bunches (30%), a wonderfully seductive, Vosne-like red that is already gorgeous yet clearly has the structure to age.
Domaine Antoine Jobard Beaune 1er Cru Les Montrevenots
A very high, cold, rocky, late-ripening site, Montrevenots is at the top of the hill on the Pommard boundary above Clos des Mouches. It’s a south-facing slope, which mitigates the altitude to some extent. The white clay and limestone soils tend to deliver bright, red fruit notes, raciness and fine, powdery structure. It’s a tiny cuvée at this stage, cropped from just one-tenth of the domaine’s 1.4 hectares. This is because Jobard is replanting most of this site with mass-selection cuttings. Joabrd’s parcel was historically known as the Clos des Montrevenots. The vines that produced the wine are 45 years old and, again, all the bunches were destemmed and given a one-week cold soak before fermentation. There was very little new oak, and the wine was bottled after 12 months on lees. It’s a wonderfully sexy, flowing Beaune with crushed red and blue fruits and striking purity. A bargain!
Ata Rangi Pinot Noir
Many class Ata Rangi as the quintessential 'New World' Pinot Noir, the best example of the variety outside of Burgundy. It's hard to argue when you let the supple, dark berry and spiced fruit pass your lips. Considered 'Grand Cru' in New Zealand, Ata Rangi was awarded the inaugural Tipuranga Teitei o Aotearoa classification, cementing its pedigree.
Mt Difficulty Long Gully Single Vineyard Pinot Noir
Long Gully Pinot Noir is handcrafted in very limited quantities and only released in outstanding vintages. Crisp blackberry and Bing cherry interplay with baronial floral notes alongside an assemblage of sweet brown spices. These same lifted dark cherry and berry notes dominate the entry onto the palate; theres a classic Long Gully dense mid-palate with flow and texture. The wine finishes strongly with a lovely tension present right through the fine-grained tannins and spicy dark berry fruit. Mt Difficulty Long Gully Pinot Noir will improve for 10 15 years given optimal cellaring conditions.