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95
/ 100
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95
/ 100
Tasting Notes
The Burn Cottage style has always been defined by minimal intervention wine making resulting in wines that are vibrant, tensile and fresh. Eschewing the temptation to wrap up the fruit with luscious oak, the Burn Cottage team look to let the site shine through.
Complex with dark cherry notes, violets and bright florals complimenting earthy, flint mineral tones and darker savoury character. Layered on the palate, this wine has a wonderful suppleness and depth of interest with expressive fruit and fine sinewy tannins. The palate shows length and concentration, an while delicious now, there is a definite promise of more with time. Cellaring potential 10-12 years.
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
Classification: Red
Variety: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2022
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: New Zealand
Region: Central Otago, Lowburn
Alcohol %: 13.5%
Cellaring: 10-15 Years
Scores
95 / 100"The 2022 Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir is light and fine, with a delicate array of cherry, strawberry, red apple and freshly pressed linen notes. Woven throughout is sweet tobacco, graphite, white tea and finely ground pink peppercorns. In the mouth, the acidity works with the tannins to penetrate the palate with flavor, and it has an ethereal quality to it, which marks it as distinctly different from the Sauvage Pinot Noir. This is an eminently pretty Pinot Noir and comes highly recommended. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. 95 points."
- Erin Larkin
95 / 100
"Perfumed and fragrant aromas of dark cherries, blackberry bushes, spices, wet bark and rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied with firmly integrated tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of redcurrants, wild raspberries, citrus peel and lead pencil. Refined and pure with an underlying power and tension. Drink or hold. 95 points. JamesSuckling.com"
- James Suckling
