2020 Burn Cottage, Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir, Central Otago, New Zealand
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful
- James Suckling
- 94/100
- Bob Campbell MW
- 96/100
- Rebecca Gibb MW
- 97/100
Product: 20208036135
Description
The wines from Central Otago always hold a special place in my heart, having travelled there in 2003, the year that the vines for this wine were planted. This is a full-bodied example offering bright cherry notes and uplifting freshness. Hints of spice with a savoury complexion. This can be enjoyed now but will also benefit from cellaring too. Either way I am confident that you will not be disappointed.
Drink 2023 – 2033
Ben Evans, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (November 2023)
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Burn Cottage Vineyard
Critics reviews
James Suckling 94/100
A tight, fine pinot with aromas of cloves, licorice, dark cherries, lemons and grilled herbs. Medium-bodied with tight tannins. Spicy and savory with a precise, lengthy finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (November 2022)
Bob Campbell MW 96/100
Fragrant, fruity, pinot noir with a mix of savoury and delicately succulent cherry/berry flavours. Good intensity with a suggestion of oyster shell/mineral character. Seriously good wine with a promising futureDrink 2023-2030Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review (March 2023)
Rebecca Gibb MW 97/100
The 2020 Pinot Noir Burn Cottage Vineyard is not a wine that I want to deconstruct into its components as it exemplifies balance, harmony and completeness, and I want to drink a lot of it. It is a wine that is the sum of its parts rather than its individual elements. It is young and can be approached now, but deserves bottle aging. It is full-bodied and suave but being from Central Otago - at the bottom of the earth next stop penguins - it has a sense of coolness and freshness, enlivening its entirety and retaining a sense of melodic direction among the mellow bass sections. There's a very small percentage of whole clusters (7%) that combine with the natural garrigue notes of Central Otago Pinot to provide herbal lift alongside pure cherry fruit and carefully judged oak.Drink 2024-2035Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous.com (January 2023)
About this wine
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Burn Cottage Vineyard
Burn Cottage Vineyards is a twenty four hectare estate in the foothills of the Pisa range in Central Otago, New Zealand. The vineyard is owned by the Sauvage family who purchased the property in 2002. Alongside head winemaker, Ted Lemon, they have converted this piece of previously farmed land into a truly hidden gem. Biodynamically farmed from the start, producing Pinot Noir that is turning heads. Some of the best to currently come out of the southern hemisphere. The climate of Central Otago can best be described as ‘continental’ with warm summers and cold winters, perfect for making world class, subtle & elegant Pinot Noir.
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