Felton Road is located in Bannockburn, Central Otago. The vineyards are nestled into small macroclimates totally surrounded by high mountains, many of which are snowcapped all year round. Though the location is on the edge of sustainable viticulture these macroclimates consistently combine hot days, cool nights and long dry autumns: perfect for the creation of fine Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, for which Felton Road has an enviable reputation.
Tasting notes: The fruit is subtle and subdued with background notes of flint hinting at its underlying complexity. By contrast the palate is opulent in texture, but with the flavours so focused that minerality dominates right through to a long, tight yet not austere finish. A thrilling wine already showing hints of the complexity to come.
Tasting notes: A nose of pink grapefruit, with hints of florals and white peach. The palate is both crisp and very textural, broad and plush but with no hint of fatness. The ripe fruit is held in check by crisp acidity, with both being overwhelmed by a rich minerality in the powerful finish of the wine. This wine continues the recent trend for our Chardonnay to become broader and less austere, yet maintaining tension and minerality.
Price: £18.95
Size: 75cl
Colour/style: White
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Tasting notes: Deep garnet with purple hints. A rather brooding nose of ripe raspberry countered with earth, toast and dark perfume... maybe deep red rose petals. The palate displays a plush, cushioned silkiness, with interplay of juicy, mouthwatering acid and ripe, rich raspberry and boysenberry fruit, offset with dusty bramble leaf. The finish is long and relatively complex for such a youthful wine, displaying minerals with dusty tannin and a kick of mocha.
Tasting notes: As is often the case, the initial entry of the wine is the lightest of all the 2008 Pinot Noirs: expressing crushed herbs and minerality.
Then the wine starts to build through the palate as earthy raspberry and cherry kick in, stepping up a gear as chocolate, mocha and minerality combine with rich, fine tannin to overwhelm the fruit in a long and very powerful finish. Textbook Block 3.
Price: £37.95
Size: 75cl
Colour/style: Red
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Tasting notes: A fairly muted bouquet of primary fruits and spice with the subtle intricacies of Block 5 simmering in the background: an early hint of the potential in a few years time. By contrast the palate is dramatic: very rich and textural, with concentrated boysenberry, spice, cherry jam and buttered toast. In its youth the flavours compete rather than complex and this wine will need some years to open and fully integrate. There is more than enough structure to elegantly frame the wine for those with enough patience.
Price: £37.95
Size: 75cl
Colour/style: Red
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Tasting notes: Yet again Cornish Point displays it characteristic exoticism: brooding dark fruit, spices, violets, cinnamon, even cedar on the nose confirm themselves in the rich, broad palate. A hint of oak as always in the young wine, which will disappear as the palate grows even more intense with age. Chewy chocolate richness helps build a sustained finish.
