- Robert Parker (RP) points 92
- Vinous points
Cloudy Bay - Pinot Noir
Price
€43.20 ex. VAT
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Tasting notes
The 2016 Pinot Noir is a silky, medium-bodied wine, loaded with raspberry and strawberry fruit. Hints of cola and spice add dimension and linger on the finish. It's 15% whole cluster and sees about one-third new French oak, but neither of those elements come across as dominating, they're subtler, mostly structural, components.
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Provenance
- Type
- Red
- Producer
- Cloudy Bay
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Marlborough
Technical
- Vintage
- 2016
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir
- ABV
- 14%
- Size
- 75cl
- Ageing
- Serving
- 15° - 17° C
- Drinking window
- 2018 - 2025
Food pairings
Key characteristics
About this wine
The 2022 Pinot Noir is creamy and spicy, with poached strawberries, sumac, some oak that pokes through and plenty of chalky tannin. The wine feels a little "elbows and knees" currently, but the cuvée ages well, and this appears to have all it needs to go some distance in the cellar. It's light in frame but with a persistent flavour.
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Behind the bottle
Producer
Cloudy Bay
Established in 1985, Cloudy Bay was one of the first five wine makers to venture into Marlborough. At the time, it was almost an unimaginable place to set-up a vineyard. But Cloudy Bay’s founder - David Hohnen - was convinced of…
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Region
Marlborough
Marlborough occupies the northeastern tip of New Zealand's South Island, centered around the Wairau and Awatere valleys. The region became New Zealand's largest wine-producing area following the planting of its first commercial…
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