Grasshopper Rock Central Otago Pinot Noir 2013
About the wine
Mind-blowing single vineyard Pinot Noir with 10 months in oak barrels
- Absolutely top notch, refined, perfumed, and beautiful Pinot Noir that has won 18 gold medals since Phil started making it!
- Phil's first ever wine won him 92 points from the biggest guru of them all, Robert Parker. It's no wonder the French are having trouble sleeping when New Zealanders are making wines as stunning as this
- This is one the best New World Pinot Noirs I've ever tasted and I suggest you grab a bottle before I order them all for myself.
Best before
At its best: now to 2023
Serving advice
Serve at 16-18°C. Open/Decant 30+ minutes before serving
Food match
Anything not really spicy or very strongly flavoured. Lamb, duck, game, salmon all work.
Contains sulphites
Wine profile
Meet the winemaker - Phil Handford
- With a heap of GOLD medals Phil is making some of the best Pinot Noir we have ever tasted
- His first ever vintage was awarded 92 points by Robert Parker. Every single vintages to date has been awarded gold medals, racking up an amazing 18 GOLD MEDALS in total.
- Phil alternates between mastermind and master of understatement: "Just going for a paddle" - First solo kayak crossing of Foveaux Strait. "Caught the odd deer" -Acclaimed deer trapper in the 80's." Dabbled in shearing"- 300 sheep in a day. When he says he'll make a bit of wine for us, we know to brace for the best wines imaginable.
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