Winery: Two Paddocks
Region: Central Otago NZ
Variety: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2009
Your Wine Guy says:
The 2009 Picnic Pinot from Two Paddocks is a deep ruby colour. The nose is moderately intense with aromas of plums, cherry, spices and vanilla. The palate doesn’t disappoint and shows flavours of spicy cherry, plums and creamy vanilla oak. The finish is long and flavoursome and will cellar for about 5 years. Incredibly good value, high quality Otago Pinot.
94 Points YWG Drink to 2015+
The winemaker says:
A rich ruby colour, with hints of brambles, plums up front, with a distinct herbs and spice in mid palate with the savoury undertones that are distinctive of the vintage. This wine shows good length and depth in its youth and will develop more complexity with bottle age.
Once again our perennial favourite – the wine we enjoy everyday! With fruit sourced from Two Paddock’s three vineyards and supplemented with fruit from throughout the greater Central Otago region, our Picnic Pinot Noir 2009 is made in a diminutive style suggesting approachability and value for money, although our winemaker advises enjoy in moderation! – Two Paddocks
Winery Information:
Two Paddocks is a small family wine producing business that is entirely dedicated to making great wine, owned by actor Sam Neill.
Sourced from http://twopaddocks.com
“We started in 1993 with modest ambitions and first planted five acres of Pinot Noir at our original little vineyard at Gibbston, Central Otago in the deep south of New Zealand. At the same time, our friend Roger Donaldson planted the land next door, hence the name Two Paddocks. (Roger’s paddock proved to be a slow starter, which meant we had to go it on our own; however we kept the title. His brand, Sleeping Dogs, takes its name from the first film we made together.)
I wanted to produce a good Pinot Noir that would, at the very least, be enjoyed by my family and friends. Frankly, my friends will pretty much drink anything, so this didn't seem too hard. To our great surprise, our first vintage in 1997 was much better than we hoped, in spite of a difficult growing season. 1998 was a more distinguished vintage, and in 1999 we were astounded to produce a Pinot that was, we thought, world class. Here was a wine of considerable complexity with an amazing nose, delicious fruit and a good lengthy finish (from clones 10/5 and 5). So rewarding has this vineyard been over the years (and so unpromising as a sheep paddock) that we planted another 5 acres of Burgundian clones there in 2008 bringing the total acreage at Gibbston to 5 hectares.
Since that original release in 1999, with each successive year we have produced a Pinot Noir (sometimes 3 or 4 Pinot Noirs) that have done us proud and are, to be frank, too good to be wasted on our friends. They still somehow manage to bludge a lot off us, and that, combined with the proprietor's generous thirst, accounts for the occasional scarcity of Two Paddocks Pinot. In short, we have become outrageously ambitious – we want to produce year after year, the world’s best Pinot Noir.”
Wines available from Your Wine Guy are:
Two Paddocks Picnic Pinot Noir
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