Shezza wrote:
Fine as a limited option down the pub but I wouldn't buy any of this for drinking at home
Shez, it is made for a different market than ours....well U knew that, infact anyone who bothers with a wine forum and has explored pinot noir is not going to go there. People who buy this have never tasted a burgundy that is on song. It is to do with satisfaction. Half decent burgundy has come down against the NZ stuff.
CO to do, but the experiment is quite expensive.
Cheap chilean PN is more likely to have some satisfaction over Poppy and trendy NZ, even when you up the anti by another 50%. Felton Road is strong money, but so is good Napa.
Yarra to do, they can vary so much, cos the climate is so variable. The last mature one from Maj had gone like moldy old carpets though
The wrong mold I'm affraid. But many many more to do, there is hope there for affordable perhaps.
We always persevere. very few affordable holy grails found yet - despite what the qualified professionals say.
Affordable:
I tell a lie, there was one for me from SA made in a very old hugenot settlement, 100 or so years ago, a vineyard at the top of the valley on steepish slopes of sedimentary rocks that was heading in exactly the right direction.
What is the dilemna
The wrong soils, much too much heat, very high yealding PN grafting clones.......in short, different drinkers want different stuff !
I am doing my fair share of curtain twitching too, online tracker says it has been sorted at a local hub and is on the road.
