About Burn Cottage
Biodynamic producer
About

2014 Burn Cottage Valli Vineyard Pinot Noir
Burn Cottage
Fruit from Valli Vineyard in Gibbston, whose owner Grant Taylor - former winemaker of Gibbston Valley Vineyards - is one of the great producers of Central Otago and a fine friend of Burn Cottage.
Finished wine detail: pH 3.81; TA 4.4g/L; alcohol 13.7%. Harvested: 23rd April. Average Brix at harvest: 23.7. Whole cluster percentage: 27%. New oak percentage: 25%. Cooperage: Damy. Average time in fermenter: 21 days. Clones: UCD5, UCD6, Dijon 115, Dijon 777. Vine age: 15 years. Plant density: 4050 vines/Ha.
June, 2016
The Wine Front
93+ points
It’s a jammy yet crisp Central Otago wine in the mould of many of the high end wines of the region. Has that ripe cherry, Cherry Ripe scent going on with whiffs of sweet earth, tobacco, tomato leaf. The palate is juicy, raspberry jammy and yet crisp on rivulets of cranberry acidity, faintly malty with barely-there oak personality, and gets some tugs and tucks from a chalky sheet of tannin. Indeed, the wine finishes long but puckering in both tang and pretty dryness. Nicely done. Real nice.
October, 2016
Gourmet Traveller WINE
The 2014 Burn Cottage Valli Vineyard Pinot Noir is taken solely from local winemakers Grant Taylor’s Gibbston Valley vineyard (as a fruit swap arrangement) and it has impressive fragrance and silky, seductive texture. It smells of spice-dusted cherries, raspberries and red plums; there’s a good dose of bright perfume and red florals. On the palate it has a thread of toasted spices and concentrated red cherry/plum flavours. Silky from top to tail.
October, 2016
The Australian
Beautiful blue-red appearance; quite intense. With its voluminous bouquet of cool, spicy, red and blueberry fruit flavours and a hint of menthol, this is seriously good juice. The palate is seductive with a generous and complex plushness featuring cool, crushed blue and dark red berries, supported with judicious new oak, and the finish shows satisfying length and finesse. So easy to love.
Standard Bottle Out of Stock
About Burn Cottage
About