Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
A punnet of fresh red berries, cherry bonbon, a little white pepper and spice, floral, with a mint and thyme perfume. It’s medium-bodied, soft and approachable, fine dusty tannin, a twist of orange peel lends some amaro bite, with a finish of excellent length. Kind of pretty and understated. Lovely wine all up.
94 Points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Complex with dark cherry notes, violets and bright florals complimenting earthy, flint mineral tones and darker savoury character. Layered on the palate, this wine has a wonderful suppleness and depth of interest with expressive fruit and fine sinewy tannins. The palate shows length and concentration, and while delicious now, there is a definite promise of more with time. Cellaring potential 10-12 years.
Winery note.
The 2022 Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir is light and fine, with a delicate array of cherry, strawberry, red apple and freshly pressed linen notes. Woven throughout is sweet tobacco, graphite, white tea and finely ground pink peppercorns. In the mouth, the acidity works with the tannins to penetrate the palate with flavor, and it has an ethereal quality to it, which marks it as distinctly different from the Sauvage Pinot Noir. This is an eminently pretty Pinot Noir and comes highly recommended. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.
95 points. Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate Feb 2025
Perfumed and fragrant aromas of dark cherries, blackberry bushes, spices, wet bark and rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied with firmly integrated tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of redcurrants, wild raspberries, citrus peel and lead pencil. Refined and pure with an underlying power and tension. Drink or hold.
95 points. JamesSuckling.com
