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Clarendon Hills Hickinbotham Vineyard Pinot Noir 1999

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Clarendon Hills Hickinbotham Vineyard Pinot Noir (1999)

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Winery:
Clarendon Hills
Varietal:
Pinot Noir
Region:
Australia > South Australia > Mclaren Vale
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2011
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User Tags:  stone fruits, cherry, meat, (tree) fruit, game, poultry, color descriptors, over-ripe, fruit, red meat 


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Pinot Noir: Responsible for some of the greatest wines on earth - the exhausted red wines of France's Burgundy region. Pinot Noir is a notoriously fickle grape that expresses its origins like no other. It's a vine that needs to struggle to produce great wines but when it does the depth of flavors that range from cherry to cola can be explosive and the wines' bright acidity and gentle tannins make them approachable and widely appealing,

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Whilst the bouquet was French, the palate is back home in Australia. The fruit flavors dominate with sour cherries and plums being the most obvious. This is a particularly full bodied and weighty Pinot Noir with a multitude of flavors. The smoky characters evident on the nose are still there as well as some stalky notes as well. The wine changes its character as you swirl it around, with several layers of flavors. This wine has plenty of structure at the finish. There is finely grained, high pixel tannins combining with sharp and crisp acid. As a result the finish lingers on well after the wine has left read more...


 

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Rating: 87/100 - As reviewed in Wine Advocate # 135 on Jun-01


 

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