Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir 2017

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Varietal

Region

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Vintage
2017

Size
750ML

ABV
13.4%

Features
Green Wine

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

The 2017 Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir is appealingly aromatic, revealing notes of Morello cherry and bramble. Fine, silky tannins and juicy acidity provide an elegant structure, with complexity coming from gentle toast and wood smoke characters.

Enjoy this wine alongside proscuitto on ciabatta bread or Furneaux double cream with walnuts.

Professional Ratings

  • 92

    A vibrant and attractive, red-cherry pinot that offers plenty of intense fruit fragrance and sweet spice. The palate has a silky, sleek and plush, primary-fruit core and delivers attractive, easygoing style.

  • 91

    The silky-smooth 2017 Pinot Noir features scents of damp loam, black cherries, cola and dried spices. It's medium to full-bodied on the palate, round and concentrated without any rough edges, and it tapers to a lingering finish that shows just a light dusting of fine-grained tannins. It's a solid effort from a producer with a long history in the region.


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Cloudy Bay

Cloudy Bay

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Cloudy Bay, New Zealand
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Cloudy Bay Vineyards, established in 1985, is today a partnership between champagne house Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin and co-founder of Cape Mentelle Vineyards in Western Australia, David Hohnen. The Cloudy Bay team is committed to producing 'wines of region' and strives to enhance the pure, bracing flavors naturally afforded by the climate and soils of Marlborough. The winery and vineyards are situated in the Wairau Valley in Marlborough at the northern end of New Zealand's South Island. This unique and cool wine region enjoys a maritime climate with the longest hours of sunshine of any place in New Zealand. Cloudy Bay has estate vineyards located at prime sites within the Wairau Valley and long-term supply agreements with five Wairau Valley growers. The main varieties grown are Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”

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An icon and leading region of New Zealand's distinctive style of Sauvignon blanc, Marlborough has a unique terroir, making it ideal for high quality grape production (of many varieties). Despite some common generalizations, which could be fairly justified given that Marlborough is responsible for 90% of New Zealand's Sauvignon blanc production, the wines from this region are actually anything but homogenous. At the northern tip of New Zealand’s South Island, the vineyards of Marlborough benefit from well-draining, stony soils, a dry, sunny climate and wide temperature fluctuations between day and night, a phenomenon that supports a perfect balance between berry ripeness and acidity.

The region’s king variety, Sauvignon blanc, is beloved for its pungent, aromatic character with notes of exotic tropical fruit, freshly cut grass and green bell pepper along with a refreshing streak of stony minerality. These wines are made in a wide range of styles, and winemakers take advantage of various clones, vineyard sites, fermentation styles, lees-stirring and aging regimens to differentiate their bottlings, one from one another.

Also produced successfully here are fruit-forward Pinot noirs (especially where soils are clay-rich), elegant Riesling, Pinot gris and Gewürztraminer.

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