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Felton Road Block 5 Pinot Noir 2012
Felton Road Block 5 Pinot Noir 2012
 
Our Price: $790.00
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Bottle-size : 75 cl

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Good medium red. Inviting spicy high tones to the aromas of red berries, pepper and smoky minerality. Tangy, taut and savory in the mouth; less supple than the 2013 Block 3 example today but more intensely flavored, with a strong saline quality that contributes to the impression of inner-mouth tension but currently partly masks the wine's sweet red fruit and spice flavors. The firm-edged tannins call for at least a few years of cellaring. My sample showed great staying power, retaining its red fruit, spice and smoky mineral flavors for several days in the recorked bottle. Outstanding potential--and one of the most complete New Zealand pinots of 2012. (Felton Road's Block 5 and Block 3 are adjacent vineyards planted on deep loess soil, the latter with some calcareous deposits. The Block 3 features a 1992 planting of a Swiss selection similar to the Wadenswil that's commonly found in Oregon, while Block 5 was planted in 1993 to a UC-Davis Pommard clone. Both wines are vinified with about 30% whole clusters.)  Jancis Robinson 17/20

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