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$29, Mediterranean Food Co., Chch.
Date Tasted: Friday, 9th May 2014
Colour and condition: Medium lemon, perfectly clear. 3
Aroma: Clean, distinctly mealy aromas are complexed by those of crushed raw (and damp) cereal seeds (including flax and hemp).… Read more
Date of tasting: 25th – 26th December 2014
Colour and condition: Medium-dusky medium cherry plum. 3
Aroma: Lovely opulent petit fruit rouge aromas: a melange of red cherry, red currant, raspberry, and alpine strawberries. Delightful. Asian spice, red rose, and buddleia undertones.… Read more
Date of tasting: 25-26 December 2014
Given to me in July by Viv Thompson at Bests. Vines planted 1866: pre-phylloxera Pinot Meunier noir on its own roots. Lots of genetic mutations and variations in the planting.
Colour and condition: Medium dusky cherry plum.… Read more
Date of tasting: 28th – 29th October 2015
Colour and condition: (Under composite / technical cork.) Pale lemon gold with slight platinum highlight. Just a touch deeper than the Greywacke tasted beside it. 3
Aroma: Extremely reductive aromatics, but not offensively so (to me at least): rather (‘generic’ and very young) ‘white Burgundy –like’, and even with 24 hours breathing this does not change much.… Read more
Date tasted: 28th – 29th October 2015
Colour and condition: (Under Stelvin seal.) Pale lemon gold with slight platinum highlights. 3
Aroma: Moderate aroma, with appealing complexity. Reminiscent of Loire Chenin with its ‘wet wool’ / lanolin, but with a distinguishing overtone of (just at first) Gravenstein apple, then dominant crystalised kiwifruit markedly complexed by nashi pear, under-ripe rock melon, and, in particular, reductive smoky notes (including cigarette lighter flint smoke), with privet hedge undertones brooding right into the background.… Read more
In-brief research paper originally published in the Stonecroft newsletter, 2016
Revised and extended in August 2020 for publication in the GRAD® website.
Copyright (©) Gerald Atkinson, 2020
The author may be contacted by e-mail at: grapevines@hotmail.co.nz… Read more
All wines were tasted blind. My comments are frank but 100% honest – and my criticisms are in no way intended to be offensive; they are all purely my genuinely held opinion based on what I saw in the glass before the wine was identified.… Read more