89 Points | International Wine Cellar , September/October 2009

($40) Good full red. Complex nose melds dark cherry, underbrush, brown spices, licorice and flowers. Densely packed but rather light on its feet, with a sappy quality to its flavors of spicy red berries, cherry, minerals, smoke and rooty underbrush. Finishes with a broad dusting of tannins and good subtle building length. In a less fruity style than this producer's pinots from Central Otago. Note that this wine and the Bannockburn Sluicings were markedly better than samples I reported on in Issue 140-hence the new tasting notes. (Kobrand, Inc., New York, NY)

90 Points | Wine Spectator

90 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate