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2021 HV Pinot Noir, Prophet's Rock, Central Otago, New Zealand
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We live on a big planet, but there are very few places where Pinot Noir feels truly at home and lives its best life. In the northern hemisphere, there’s Burgundy, of course, as well as Oregon, some of the cooler parts of northern California and Canada, Baden in Germany, isolated spots in Austria and the Alto Adige in Italy. In the southern hemisphere, there’s Tasmania, Victoria, the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Marlborough and Central Otago and I’m already starting to run out of examples.
It’s a fickle, capricious grape, but when its needs are met, it makes the most wonderful wines, each with their very own sense of place, but I don’t think any Pinot Noir from those places mentioned above, including Burgundy, are so easily identifiable as those from Central Otago on New Zealand’s South Island. They seem to have a slightly darker character, a wet hedgerow-fruit quality, like blackberries after a rain shower, or the incarnadine liquor that oozes from a summer pudding, This example, from Prophet’s Rock, is as defiantly Central Otago as you could wish for, it’s not trying to emulate a red Burgundy, it’s true to itself and is an utterly beguiling cocktail of blackcurrants, raspberries, redcurrants and blueberries, laced with a little baking spice to mollify the sharper fruits. Drink it with salmon teriyaki, a toasted turkey sandwich, crispy aromatic duck or barbecued baby-back ribs. 13.5% alc. Drink now-2035.
NB Winemaker, Paul Pujol, worked at Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé in Burgundy, developing a friendship with its winemaker, François Millet, who now consults at Prophet’s Rock.
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