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Felton Road Pinot Noir Central Otago 2008

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2008 Vintage

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Woodland Hills Wine Company

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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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Deep garnet with purple hints. A rather brooding nose of ripe raspberrycountered with earth, toast and dark perfume... maybe deep red rose petals. Thepalate displays a plush, cushioned silkiness, with interplay of juicy,mouthwatering acid and ripe, rich raspberry and boysenberry fruit, offset withdusty bramble leaf. The finish is long and relatively complex for such ayouthful wine, displaying minerals with dusty tannin and a kick of mocha.<br/><br/>

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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Lightly smoky and earthy on the nose with watermelon and spicy cherry fruit that has a light candied cranberry tone. Fairly lightly bodied though juicy and transparent in the mouth with spicy mineral tones giving the wine an almost salty tinge that adds to the subtle stemmy and floral complexity of the wine. 92pts


September 2009

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Snooth User: Lindy Hemsley
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Cherry fruit nose and at first on palate. A bit smoky then pure raspberry kicks in like a glass of squeezed raspberry fruit. Offset by the smoky earthiness for balance and finesse.Highly silky mouthfeel.


October 2009

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