{"id":3215,"date":"2019-05-28T23:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2019-06-02T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:07:05","slug":"hillersden-estate-pinot-noir-marlborough-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/2019\/05\/28\/hillersden-estate-pinot-noir-marlborough-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"HILLERSDEN ESTATE PINOT NOIR MARLBOROUGH 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have been selling New Zealand Pinot Noirs since the 1993\nvintage, prior to which we had no idea they even made<\/em> Pinot Noir in\nNew Zealand.  A Pinot Noir-centric Oregon purveyor went there and hand\ncarried back things like Ata Rangi and Te Mata, and our impression was that\nthis was clearly the start of something significant.  In the roughly\nquarter century that followed, the Kiwis have established themselves as an\nimportant Pinot Noir option in this marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then few here had a clear idea of the appellations or\ngeneral lay of the land, but certain consistent profiles became\napparently.  Generally New Zealand Pinots are cooler customers and a bit\nmore savory.  Sometimes they can be downright sharp and green, perhaps\njust a bit too \u2018cool climate\u2019 for a lot of people’s tastes.  But the best\nexamples have a more pronounced fruit core and more rounded edges, but still\npresent their fruit in a more restrained, lifted, cooler-edged manner.  It\nis the ones that hit that happy medium of bright mulberry and dark cherry fruit\nwith enough palate tenderness to give them a broader audience that really\npresent the most viable and distinctive options for Pinot fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best examples play to that, and Hillersden is a new face for\nus that offers a great look at a wine that is reasonably outgoing yet at the\nsame time distinctly New Zealand.  The mulberry, plum and dark cherry\nfruit has both mineral and savory spice underpinnings, but also possesses a\nsuppler palate-feel and somewhat softer edges to really give a good reckoning\nof the place without one having to forgive a touch of shrillness far too many\nother NZ reds have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The combination in the\u00a0Hillersden Estate Pinot Noir Marlborough 2016<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>makes for a compelling drink and the price point is relatively easy on the pocketbook.\u00a0 In other words, we may have found a new player moving forward but this example certainly delivers.\u00a0 Their claim is that they are the only family-owned, single estate producer in Wairu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had never heard of this producer before but that may have to\ndo with the fact that their history only goes back to 2015.  They are in\nthe upper Wairu Valley, which is a bit further inland and a bit warmer than\nmany of the other Marlborough sites.  This would certainly help make the\nwine fleshier while still preserving the brightness of the flavors. \nWinemaker Adam Kubrock actually grew up in Walla Walla and made Syrah and other\nreds but became enchanted with the cool climate winemaking Down Under. \nThis Pinot sees 10 months in 25% new French oak and all of the fruit is farmed\nsustainably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been selling New Zealand Pinot Noirs since the 1993 vintage, prior to which we had no idea they even made Pinot Noir in New Zealand.  A Pinot Noir-centric Oregon purveyor went there and hand carried back things like Ata Rangi and Te Mata, and our impression was that this was clearly the start of something … Continue reading “HILLERSDEN ESTATE PINOT NOIR MARLBOROUGH 2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[524,374,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}