Julicher 99 Rows Martinborough Pinot Noir 2018

New Zealand, Martinborough

Pinot Noir

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Description

Aroma: Spicy oak and freshly plucked blueberry, raspberry, and cherry jump from the glass. Palate: A complex, savoury, mouth filling softness with spicy cherries, plums and sweet berries come to the fore. The tannins are fine boned, yet persistent, combining with the oyster shell acidity.

Awards

4 stars Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide

Elegant pinot noir with plum, black cherry, violet, cedar and subtle wood-smoke flavours. A backbone of fine, drying tannins suggests cellaring potential, although the wine is fairly approachable now. RRP $35.00. At its best: 2021–2025

93 pts Bob Campbell The Real Review - March 2021

It's gorgeously ripe and elegantly complex on the nose showing dried cherry, thyme, toasted spice and mushroom characters, leading to a beautifully rounded palate that's juicy and supple. The wine offers lovely harmony and savoury nuances, offering delightful drinking. At its best: now to 2023. $35.00. www.julicher.co.nz. Sept 2020.

93 pts and 5 Stars Sam Kim Wine Orbit

Deep ruby-red with good transparency, lighter on the rim. The nose is round and softly full, elegantly present nuances of sweet plums, cherries, melded with subtle herbs and spices, unfolding earth and minerals. Medium-full bodied, the flavours are mouth-filling, aromas of plums, cherries and mulberries have a savoury tone, enriched by earth, minerals along with dark herbs and liquorice. Lacy acidity provides brightness to the darker shaded flavours; the mouthfeel is silken with velvety tannin. The rich scent of earth, dark herbs linger on the palate for a long time. This is an elegant Pinot Noir with fine structure, lacy acidity and earthy, herbaceous details. Match with venison and lamb over the next 5 years. Handpicked, destemmed, fermented in open-top vats to 13.5% alc. Aged in French oak for 10 months, 20% new oak. No fining, vegan friendly. RRP $35

93 pts and 5 Stars 18.5/20 pts - Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews - Feb 2021

A savoury, and complex bouquet with an attractive perfume, wild berry high notes, sandalwood, and spice box. Fleshy, nice attractive berry fruit core, firm, drying positive tannins that linger with a fine acid thread. A lovely balance of fruit, and structure. Nice wine

91 pts The Wine Rater - Nov 2021

Certifications

Alcohol

13.5%

Analytical data

dry

1.0 g/l residual sugar

5.7 g/l acidity

Vineyard

Terroir: The soils of Te Muna Terraces are free-draining alluvial gravel, which are rich in minerals making it ideal for growing grapes. The climate is an extension of Martinborough and similar to Burgundy, being only slightly cooler due to higher altitude, but with long cool summers and low rainfall providing the optimum long ripening conditions for grapes.

Pruning: cane

Vinification

The grapes were hand-harvested and de-stemmed into small open top vats for fermentation. The must receive a 4 to 5 day cool pre-fermentation maceration before the fermentation began. The cap was treated with a punch down 3 times daily during the peak of fermentation. After fermentation finished, the wine was pressed into new and old French oak barrels for maturation and underwent complete malolactic fermentation in the spring. The wine was racked off lees, blended, and filtered for clarity.

Maturation

10 months in 20% new French oak

Months in bottle: 24

Color

Apparent color: ruby

Intensity: medium

Taste

Acidity: medium

Bottling

Closure: Screw top

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