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HiGHLY RATED
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Xanadu have made a name for their superlative efforts, treated to gutsy Rhonesque styling. A touch of aromatic lift from the enduring blackberry qualities, excellent balance and depth of flavour, a silky mouth feel is supported by soft tannins and refined acids.
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Luscious, intensely flavoured, a succulent, fruit driven Pinot Noir with flesh and body and beauteous smells. Savoury elements of bacon and barnyard balance the tangy cherry fruit and prepare the palate to closing impressions of rhubarb, currant and thyme.
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This is a hard wine to put down, aromas of a plum and soy glazed ham, the savouryness adds palate weight and structure, but the thrust of this wine is all about ripe, persistent, grapey, cherry/ currant fruit, a bucolic meat and three veg style of hearty Shiraz.
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Surprisingly rich and varietal, trademark Coonawarra softness regulates the fruit and lines the palate.
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Magnificent deep colour, velvety appearance, robes of scarlet. A complex array of mint and blackcurrant aromas along with some cedary oak nuances. The concentrated palate has a lovely silky texture, showing chocolate and cassis flavours before a wonderfully long, soft tannin finish.
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Aptly named for it's harmony of noble fruit, exuberant oak and enthusiastic tannins. Black bramble and currant to the fore, with spice from the shiraz and the oak, around a core of essential choco-plum fruit, allsorts and earth.
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NOT JUST PiNOT
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PiNOT LEGENDS
STONELEIGH'S VINEYARDS ARE LOCATED TOWARDS THE NORTHERN SIDE OF WAIRAU VALLEY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE MIGHTY WAIRAU RIVER. Often referred to as the Rapaura series of soils, they are relatively young, based on river silts and stones, low in nutrients they offer very little water holding capacity. True to the Stoneleigh style, this soft, supple wine captures the essence of Marlborough. Fragrant and flavoursome, it has been fashioned from small blocks of varying clones and rootstocks, achieving a completely integrated and complex style of Pinot Noir
STEPHEN SHELMERDINE NEVER APPLIES ANY PRESSURE ON HIS PINOT VINES TO PERFORM. Handling fruit and wine by gravity, knowing when not to interfere, the use of indigenous yeast and the subdued use of oak, all help to render the style. The challenge is to preserve aromas and to let the palate form by itself. A pue, small bath Pinot wine, elegance and finesse are the defining characters, matched by fine texture and good structure. The result is subtlety over sunshine, terroir over intervention and delicacy over extraction, fashioned to be beautiful to drink
PINOT NOIR THRIVES IN MARLBOROUGH WHERE CLOUDY BAY HAS PLANTED THE BEST CLONES TO PRIME VINEYARD LOCATIONS WHICH YIELD THE FINEST FRUIT. Crop levels are carefully controlled to ensure the grapes have great concentration of flavour, enhanced by tried and true hands-off, minimalist winemaking practices. Cloudy Bay is always richly layered, pleasingly, floral, dry and fruit driven, medium bodied and finely structured. "A buyer for Macau casino commented recently that this pinot noir is stunning in value and taste!" -South China Morning Post
WINEMAKER ROB DOLAN ESTABLISHED HIS AFFINITY FOR PINOT NOIR ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE WHEN HE CLAIMED THE PRESTIGIOUS BOUCHARD-FINLAYSON TROPHY FOR CHAMPION PINOT NOIR AT THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL WINE SHOW. Sticks represents an immensely satisfying and approachable Pinot Noir, crafted from fruit grown to some of the Yarra Valley's most splendid vineyards, tended by loyal friends and long time associates. "Light but refreshing style of Pinot, with red berries and spice flavours, with savoury hints. A great drinking wine!" -Sunday Territorian
YABBY LAKE ARE RENOWNED FOR EXCEPTIONAL BALANCE AND INTENSE PERFUME, speaking clearly of origin, it's all about expression over impression. Complex with great depth of character, the palate is finely structured with dark berry fruits, silky texture and excellent persistence. "Yabby incrementally adjusts its milles feuilles of flavours and summons up the confidence to perform miracles on the world stage. There is extraordinary talent here!" -Top 1OO Australian Wines, "A gorgeous wine, firm structure and beautiful earthy cherry flavours!" -West Australian
AS A KEY FIGURE IN THE PIONEERING WAVE OF MORNINGTON'S VIGNERONS, Garry Crittenden was instrumental in forging for the Peninsula the reputation as a distinguished producer of distinctive, regional wines. From the outset, Crittenden recognized the area's climatic suitability to Pinot Noir, and set about exploiting it through meticulous viticulture and sophisticated winemaking techniques. Crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir clones 114 and 115, MV6, D2V5 and D5V12, hand harvested from the Crittenden property at 25 Harrisons Rd Dromana
ESCARPMENT IS A VENTURE BY HEATHCOTE ESTATE/ YABBY LAKE'S DYNAMIC DUO, the Messrs Kirby and McKenna. Vines are planted to alluvial gravel terraces at the base of Aorangi Ranges. "This is the flagship wine of Pinot Noir guru, Larry McKenna. It's a very serious Pinot Noir in a rather Burgundian style. Choc-ful of charm!" -Home Entertaining, "Larry McKenna hails from Australia and won trophy for top Pinot Noir at the International Wine & Spirits competition. One of the most outstanding Pinot Noir makers American wine consumers have never heard of!" -Pinot File
DISTINGUISHED LANGTONS CLASSIFICATION. One of Australia's finest Pinot Noir, from low yielding vineyards on the windswept Bellarine peninsula, by a winemaker wholly committed to Burgundian practices. Aromatic with dark cherry and spicy vanilla oak, a velvety palate of plums and gamey flavours. A wine of concentration, power and structure, with unmistakable varietal personality, more muscular and rich than it's euro antecedants. "Powerful, gamey Pinot, the experience of several vintages spent in Burgundy is reflected in Bannockburn!" -New York Times
CENTRAL OTAGO PRODUCES THE WORLD'S MOST DISTINCTIVE AND WELL DEFINED PINOT NOIR. The winemaking technique at Quartz Reef is very much in keeping with the traditional practices of the old world style. "Deeply coloured, it is rich and sweet fruited, with fresh, strong plum and cherry flavours, a hint of liquorice, subtle oak and fine, supple tannins. A bold, fleshy, generous red!" -Michael Cooper's, "Central Otago Pinot Noirs are dramatic – they taste like no others. Happily, wineries such as Quartz Reef deliver such multi dimensional goods!" -Pursuing the Wild Pinot
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