Astrolabe Marlborough Pinot Noir 2019

Ripe, complex, fruity, varietal and very inviting bouquet with aromas of dark cherry and purple-skinned plum, whispers of fruit spice and layers of toasty barrel with dusty clove and vanilla baking spice scents. Delicious on the palate with a core of pinosity and fruit, flavours of dark berries and plums, wood spices and toasty barrel. Youthful with firm chalky textured tannins and salivating acidity. There’s a dark rose and saline note on the finish adding complexity and mouthfeel. A lovely example ready to enjoy with food or keep in the cellar till 2022. Ideal drinking from 2022 through 2028+. Excellent. Score – 94. (Cameron Douglas, MS, camdouglasms.com, March 27, 2021)