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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
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