Fromm Pinot Noir 2019

Reviews

Cameron Douglas MS: 95/100.  I've been enjoying this wine over three days to discover that day three delivers the best expression for this wine and vintage. Aromas and flavours of a deeply complex and fine savoury bouquet. Layers of red berries and wood spice, smoky oak and red berry scents of Doris plum and dark cherry, some wild forest berries and kitchen spice suggestions. Equally complex on the palate, dry with a core of fruit, contrasting tannins and acidity layered between savoury, mineral and spice. Delicious, youthful and lengthy. Best drinking from late 2022 through 2030.

James Suckling (JamesSuckling.com): 93/100. Such impressive freshness and vitality of red-cherry fruit on offer here, this has a gently herbal and sappy edge, as well as earth and spice. The palate has such supple and fleshy red-cherry fruit. Impressively pure and bright pinot here. Drink now.

Tasting Note

Bright, medium density Pinot colour with a nice dark hue. The nose is youthful, generous and direct, offering ripe dark fruit aromas with a gentle earthy touch and refreshing clarity. At first, the palate is vibrant and appealing with an almost rustic elegance yet without any hard edges. As the wine opens up in the glass, there is a wonderful presence of ripe, crunchy fruit, fine tannins and excellent structure, all blending together into a harmonious and complex Pinot of superb transparency and tension.

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Additional information

Type: Red wine

Grape varial: 100% Pinot Noir

Alcohol: 13.5% vol

Food match: This wine is beautiful with beef, lamb, BBQ, vegetarian dishes, cheese and charcuterie, fish with creamy sauces but also with fried rice and some chilies as well with soy sauce.

Vineyards: Marlborough, New Zealand. Representing four vineyard sites and encompassing three sub-regions in Marlborough (Brancott, Waihopai and Wairau Valley) this Pinot Noir clearly expresses the FROMM winery style.

Winemaking: Hand-picked between March 13th and April 1st. Almost 100% destemmed with a negligible amount of whole bunches while retaining a high portion of whole berries, all fermented on “wild” yeast. Average time on skins between 14 and 28 days. Matured for approximately 12 to 18 months in French oak barrels (less than 10% new).

Residual sugar: <1 g/l

Bottle size: 0.75l

Notice: contains sulphites

Cellaring potential: until 2028+

Closure: Screwcap

Produced and bottled by: FROMM WINERY, 15 Godfrey Road, RD 2, Blenheim 7272, New Zealand.

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