Lawson's Dry Hills Pinot Noir 2005

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Lawson's Dry Hills Pinot Noir 2005 Front Label
Lawson's Dry Hills Pinot Noir 2005 Front Label

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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2005

Size
750ML

Features
Screw Cap

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Color: Deep ruby.

Nose: Cherry, plum, vanilla and coffee aromas dominate.

Palate: This Pinot Noir has a distinctive flavor profile, the nose following through seamlessly to the palate. This wonderful array of flavors combines with supple tannins, good palate weight and a long, satisfying finish.

Aging: Cellar for 3-4 years. This wine will become more complex with the development of savory porcini mushroom and barnyard characters.

Professional Ratings

  • 90
    The 2005 Pinot Noir has a very fragrant, well-defined nose with floral notes: rose petals, cherry, wild strawberry and hedgerow. The palate is medium-bodied with good acidity, just a faint touch of astringency but overall this is well-balanced, taut, harmonious with lovely crunchy cherry and plum on the finish. Excellent.
Lawson's Dry Hills

Lawson's Dry Hills

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Lawson's Dry Hills, New Zealand
Lawson's Dry Hills is a medium-sized Marlborough wine company committed to the production of premium Marlborough wines. The company was founded in 1992 by Ross and Barbara Lawson, when they decided to make wine themselves rather than on-selling the grapes that they had been growing since 1980. The wines have been received well, with many show successes. Recent vintages of Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Gewürztraminer, and now Pinot Noir show excellent depth of fruit and complexity with a variety of winemaking techniques applied.
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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.

GEC840103_2005 Item# 102924

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