Bay Harbour: December 11, 2019

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Wine
Red wines to enjoy in the warm weather
• By Mark Henderson
FOR RED wine lovers pinot noir
can be the ticket to happiness on
hot days.
Drunk cool, not cold, their
wonderful fragrance and lighter
frame can be exhilarating rather
than exhausting.
2017 Villa Maria Platinum
Selection Organic
Marlborough Pinot Noir
Price: $29.99
Rating: Very good to excellent
Bright and juicy nose, dusty
smoky notes, tar, lead pencil and
savoury nuances. Savoury notes
continue on the stony minerally
palate with juicy, tangy red
berryfruit. A refreshing vein of
coolness runs through this. Time
sees the stony, grainy tannic
backbone become more evident
with a tangy sweet ‘n’ sour note
on the nose.
Better with food for now.
www.villamariawines.com
2017 Tohu Whenua Awa
Single Vineyard Awatere
Valley Pinot Noir
Price: $41.99
Rating: Very good to excellent
Bolder, darker fruits and bonfire
embers: red fruit fragrance
and savoury notes evolve with
time. Powerful in the mouth,
depth and concentration mixing
savoury characters with
a saline hint. The fruit sways
across the plum, blueberry and
cherry spectrum with spice and
oak notes in support. Relatively
grippy tannins for now.
A powerfully rendered style
that shows potential.
www.tohuwines.co.nz
2017 Tohu Whenua Matua
Single Vineyard Upper
Moutere Pinot Noir
Price: $34.99
Rating: Excellent
An alluring perfume leads
the nose, followed by dried
strawberry, spice and savoury
elements. Silky entry before the
tannins flood in: the strawberry
and red cherry fruit dancing
on the palate. There’s a playful,
juicy crunchiness, a little hint of
stalk/herbs, while the structure is
there without intruding.
A delightfully long finish, the
flavours hang in the mouth.
www.tohuwines.co.nz
2017 Craggy Range Aroha
Te Muna Pinot Noir
Price: $150
Rating: Excellent to outstanding
Leads with stewed fruit/
rhubarb before a wonderful
perfumed florality develops
Thin Lizzy
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and grows. A sweet fruit core,
wrapped in some whole bunch
stalk notes, wild herbs and
savoury influences. Brightness
from the acidity, underlying
chewiness from the tannins yet
increasing silkiness as it opens
up. Flows to a marvellously long
fruit and savoury-filled finish.
Superb potential.
www.craggyrange.com
find your
groove
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2017 Vergence Red by Call 03 354 2018 6228 Jules or 0274 Taylor 836 265
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Pegasus Bay
Marlborough Pinot Noir
Price: $40
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Rating: Very good to excellent Rating: Very good to excellent
OF Bold DANCE
and bright nose with
Opaque, dark colour. Brooding ripe (almost liqueur) fruits, wets
nose of pencil lead & bramble, stone and dustiness, shifting fruit notes along with lavender
evolving to fragrant
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balance, a
with a sweet fruited underlay. allied to chalkiness and stony juicy brightness and refreshing
Powerful and sweetly fruited minerality.
salivatory aspect to the close.
palate with plum, liqueur fruits Playful and exuberant, with Heaps of enjoyment, gorgeous
with a delightful dried herb note appealing vivacity, and while now.
hanging on the finish. Pinot on the underlying structure builds www.riverbyestate.com
find your
groove
steroids with chewy tannins: lots
of ingredient here.
Maybe not for pinot classicists
yet fascinatingly different.
www.pegasusbay.com
2018 Sacred Hill Single
Vineyard Marlborough
Pinot Noir
Price: $27.99
find your
Rating: Very
contemporary
good to excellent
Fragrant nose with strawberry
and fruit yoghurt influences. The
groove
pale colour jazz belies the surprising
palate weight, continuing
jazz
the pattern of the nose, adding
wild herbs and a sweet ‘n’ sour
hiphoptanginess. This builds in weight
with aeration, adding structure,
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2015 Riverby Estate
Crowd 116 Sawyers pleasing Arms Road and very easy Reserve Marlborough Pinot
drinking.
Noirballet
www.sacredhill.com
Papanui
jazz
contemporary
and tightens, it is likely to be at
its best drunk youthfully, paired
with appropriate food.
www.julestaylor.com
Price: $35
Rating: Excellent
Subtle yet attractively
perfumed with oak spices, pencil
shavings, dried cranberry and
tangy nuances. The palate is
open and fleshy, mixing cooler
cranberry & currants with darker
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