Impromptu Pinot Night
Three of us met on Monday night for a look at a few non-Burgundy Pinot Noirs:
Pinot Noir Rose '21, Stanlake Park (UK)
Puy de Dome, Cave St-Verny '23 (France, TWS)
Ignacio Recabarren Casablanca '22 (Chile, TWS)
Exhibition Sonoma Coast '22 (USA, TWS)
Hoddles Creek '18 (Australia)
English Rose. Onion-skin blush, redcurrant fruit, needing hotter weather and an outdoor location.
France. From the Auvergne - can you get decent Pinot for a tenner? Gave a decent account of itself. Young, bit rhubarby, recognisably Pinot, in need of food.
Chile. Smartly packaged, typically Chilean PN profile. Pleasant to drink for sure but lacks structure and comes across on the sweet side.
USA. The 14% alcohol had us worried, but this showed well with attractive spice-box notes.
Australia. A few years on the rest, and nicely developed as a result. Clean fruit. This showed Christmas spices when young, but they were absent last night. Drinking well, but perhaps missing some tertiary interest. Wanted to love this more than I did. Blending with a dash of the USA wine was insightful.
A "palate cleanser" in the form of a glass of Supermalt
Finished with a half of Coutet '07. WOTN, disappeared very quickly. Ginger marmalade. A session Barsac?