96/100 - Cameron Douglas MS March 2020
"Really lovely bouquet with layers of fruit and oak, a nervous youthful texture with firm tannins and acidity to match. The fruit ripeness punches through the new oak layers and texture-laden tannins with a fleshy, generous and red berry surge. Complexity builds as the wine opens up in glass, layers of fruit and spice begin to emerge after a few minutes. A wine still relaxing and developing. Drinkable now, but best from 2021 through 2028." Cameron Douglas

17+/20 - Tim Jackson JancisRobinson.com
"Bendigo subregion. 400 m elevation, high terrace. Polyphenols naturally high, due to slow and long ripening, so very light extraction, with only cap-wetting and a few punch-downs throughout fermentation. Mid-deep black-purple – almost Syrah-like colour. White pepper and cedar, with bacon fat! Toasty oak complexity over ripe, plush blackberry fruit. The herbal and orange peel characters are the non-Syrah elements. Brisk acidity, flinty-schist mineral, spice and bacon-fat oak toast. Firm, peppery, Syrah-like tannins. Long and spicy. (TJ)." Drink 2024 - 2032 Tim Jackson

Winemaker Paul Pujol has worked with some top producers in France, Burgundy, and with Maison Kuentz-Bas in Alsace.

Grapes sourced from our high-elevation, steep glacial terrace Home Vineyard on clay & pedogenic limestone soil featuring schist & quartz. Minimal extraction, barrel-aged for 17 months, bottled unfiltered & unfiltered. cellared before release. 

Low-yielding concentrated fruit that expresses our vineyard. In the winery, they employ traditional old world techniques; the grapes are handled gently and the wines are fermented using only the indigenous yeast from the vineyard.

Since the first release in 2005, the Prophet’s Rock Pinot Noir has consistently been one of New Zealand's best-reviewed Pinot Noirs.

Elegant and refined in style, to decant and drink or keep...that is the question!

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Country:

New Zealand

Region:

Otago, Bendigo

Variety:

Pinot Noir

Style:

Light, elegant reds

Winemaker:

Paul Pujol

Closure:

Cork

ABV:

 

Bottle size:

14%

 

750ml

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Food Match:

Lamb, Duck



 

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