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2005 Villa Maria Estate Pinot Noir Taylors Pass Vineyard Marlborough
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2005 Villa Maria Estate Pinot Noir Taylors Pass Vineyard Marlborough

Producer: Villa Maria Estate
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Pinot Noir
Origin: New Zealand
Region: New Zealand

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90(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , September/October 2007

($55) Good full, deep red. Pungent blackberry and mineral aromas complicated by flinty, floral and smoky nuances. Sappy and intensely flavored but tightly wound. The sharply focused blackberry and raspberry flavors are further lifted by minerals and flowers. In a very taut, classically dry style, with a bracing, firmly tannic finish calling for two to four years of cellaring. Very impressive New Zealand pinot, and one of the best examples I tasted this year that's not from Central Otago.

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New Zealand's ocean-influenced climate--markedly cooler than that of its neighbor Australia--yields wines with admirable fruit intensity and crisp acidity. Fully two-thirds of New Zealand's wine production is white, and more than half of the wine it ships to America is Sauvignon Blanc. The U.S. market has developed a major thirst for these juicy, fresh New Zealand Sauvignons, which are mostly free of oak influence. But New Zealand Pinot Noir, too, is growing...
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Pinot Noir

Adored by critics, prized by collectors, Pinot Noir is one of most tantalizing yet temperamental varietals in the world. For many wine enthusiasts, this is part of the appeal of Pinot -- it doesn't reveal its charms easily. Pinot Noir's virtue also stems from the unique characteristics of the grape. The skins are especially delicate, which accounts for the lighter color and body of finished wine. But, despite the delicacy, the best wines have excellent backbone and...
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