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As I write, I’m at the departure gate waiting to embark on a rather long journey to Kiwi land. So a chance to write up four affordable New Zealand Pinot Noirs I had the other night.<\/p>\n
Seresin Leah Pinot Noir 2012 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Seresin Momo Organic Pinot Noir 2014 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> Ara Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2014 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> The Ned Pinot Noir 2015 Marlborough, New Zealand<\/strong> As I write, I’m at the departure gate waiting to embark on a rather long journey to Kiwi land. So a chance to write up four affordable New Zealand Pinot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,60],"tags":[352,378],"class_list":["post-16679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-pinot-noir","tag-new-zealand","tag-pinot-noir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16687,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16679\/revisions\/16687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a320 Noel Young, Fareham Wine Cellar, The New Zealand Cellar
\n13% alcohol
\nA blend of all three of Seresin’s vineyards, wild fermented, with a long maceration, aged in French oak for 11 months with 15% new oak. A complex, savoury, quite mineral style of Pinot that has fruit but doesn’t let it dominate. There are red cherries, plums, herbs and pepper, with a bit of floral, aromatic lift and a fine, spicy structure. This Pinot shows restraint, elegance, and a slight wild side, with lots of non-fruit complexity. Quite lovely. 93\/100<\/p>\n
\n\u00a312.50 The Wine Society
\n13% alcohol
\n11 months in old French oak. This is delicious: it’s light, juicy and fruity with a deliciously savoury, meaty, peppery edge to the red cherry and cranberry fruit. This has a lovely savoury twist to it, and a bit of aromatic lift, making it very food friendly. This is a wine with integrity and drinkability, and a little bit of wildness. 91\/100<\/p>\n![\"ara](\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/P1160507-500x333.jpg\")
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\n\u00a311.99 Waitrose, but \u00a38.99 until 24 Jan 17
\n13% alcohol
\nThis is juicy and bright with red cherries, plums and a nice savoury twist. There’s a nice freshness to this wine, and it has real drinkability and food compatibility. There’s some grip, and a hint of pepper, with a crisp, crunchy raspberry edge, as well as a hint of oak. 89\/100<\/p>\n
\n\u00a313.99 Majestic, \u00a311.99 mixed six price
\n13.5% alcohol
\nThis Pinot Noir has lovely floral cherry fruit aromatics, and flavours of spice, redcurrants, cherries and plums. With fruity directness and an appealing, fresh fruity presence, this is utterly more-ish, made in a new world style, and finishing with a bit of oak spice and coffee. Never aims at elegance: this is for those who like a bigger style of Pinot. 89\/100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"