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Sydney International Wine Competition
Blue-Gold Award Winner

Brodie Estate Pinot Noir 2008

Judges' Comments
Jane Boyce
Cherry and vanilla aroma. Lively fruit. Develops on the palate then fades gently. Ripeness of fruit matches the sweetness of the parsnip and the honey glaze.
Lisa Perrotti-Brown
Medium to deep ruby purple colour. Dark cherry, red berry and moss aromas. Crisp acidity. Medium level of silky tannins and a medium to full body. Good concentration and a long finish.
Neil Hadley
A beetroot nose with some green edges. The palate presents very well with dark plummy fruit, firm balanced tannin and a good spicy finish.
Kym Milne
A very ripe style. Ripe berry, ripe cherry. Sweet oak with a touch of raisin. Quite a full, ripe wine. Looks slightly sweet with the food.
Martin Williams
A medium ruby cherry colour. Spicy pine needle. Toasty oak. Medium body fleshy fruit. Fresh acid and fine firm tannins.
Ken Dobler
Dark cherry red colour. Complex dark fruits on the nose. Some tar and liquorice notes as well. The palate showed sweet juicy fruit characters with nice length. It improved markedly with food. More complex and the sweet fruit was enhanced by the savoury food.

Revewed by Geoff Kelly




2009  Brodie Estate Pinot Noir   17 ½ +  ()
     
Martinborough,  New Zealand:  14.5%;  $36   [ screwcap ]
Pinot noir ruby.  Bouquet here is immediately sweet and ripe pinot noir at an appropriate red grading to black cherry level of ripeness,  with the floral component deepening into the dark roses to boronia spectrum.  Palate is beautifully balanced,  medium weight,  fragrant subdued oak,  a little short and hard at this stage.  A pretty (in a positive sense) and highly varietal wine,  possibly not bone-dry.  Cellar 3 – 8 years.  GK 08/11

Sydney International Wine Competition
Blue-Gold Award Winner

Brodie Estate Pinot Noir 2009
Judges' Comments

Warren Gibson
Lifted, spicy and attractive. Ripe notes. Cherry and very floral but also showing beautiful, spicy, rich flavour with a velvet like palate. A good match with the squab but the sweetness is amplified.

Neil Hadley
Quite an attractive spice with a dark berry note. There is plenty of juicy cherry and plum flavours up front with an almost musky perfume on the finish.

Xenia Irwin
Black berry fruit character in a summer pudding style. Generous, light, ripe berry fruit. Currant and raspberry for good fruit intensity. Fine, silky tannins offer structure over tight acidity.

Brent Marris
Toasty oak on the nose. Good fruit on the mid palate. Slightly sweet fruit also on the mid palate. Good ripe fruit tannins. The dish helped with this sweet mid palate. Good length and focus. It pulled back on the tannins and lifted the fruit sweetness beautifully.

Rob Geddes
Wood dominant but some lovely sweet raspberry, cherry, berry pie in the background.  It kept on getting prettier all the time. A question mark over residual sugar. It seemed sugar sweet at first with generous fruit and sweet to the finish. It was a great wine but it wasn’t balanced. It got upgraded in its score as it went well with food.  The food tended to absorb that sense of separate sweetness and gave the wine an overall sense of harmony and balance.


Kym Milne
Lifted, bright fruit and sweet oak aromas with some slightly toasty characters. Good fruit on the palate and some sweet oak flavours. Quite a silky palate. Needs some time for the oak flavours to settle in but it’s a good, complex wine with nice tannin structure. The oak a little bit apparent with the food at the moment.  It just needs time in the bottle.

Michael Cooper
2011 November/ December issue of Winestate.

Brodie Estate Pinot Noir 2009 * * * *
Rich, smooth-flowing Martinborough red, full-coloured and invitingly fragrant. Good concentration of very ripe cherry/plum flavours, hints of licorice and spices, and finely integrated oak. Already delicious.