Burn Cottage Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir 2020

The 2020 Pinot Noir Burn Cottage Vineyard is not a wine that I want to deconstruct into itscomponents as it exemplifies balance, harmony and completeness, and I want to drink a lot of it. It is a wine that is the sum of its parts rather than its individual elements. It is young and can be approached now, but deserves bottle aging. It is full-bodied and suave but being from Central Otago – at the bottom of the earth next stop penguins – it has a sense of coolness and freshness, enlivening its entirety and retaining a sense of melodic direction among the mellow bass sections. There’s a very small percentage of whole clusters (7%) that combine with the natural garrigue notes of Central Otago Pinot to provide herbal lift alongside pure cherry fruit and carefully judged oak. Drinking window: 2024-2035. Score – 97. (Rebecca Gibb, MW, vinous.com, April 27, 2023)