Burn Cottage Vineyard

Pinot Noir, 'Sauvage Vineyard'

Pinot Noir
Sourced from the Sauvage Vineyard, 5.8 hectares planted in 1999, average vine age 20 years old
Sauvage Vineyard is located on the Northeast side of Felton Road, where it sits between the Felton Road MacMuir Vineyard and the Mt Edward Muirkirk Vineyard
Hand-harvested and fermented for around 25 days with indigenous yeast
Aged in French oak
Bottled unfiltered and unfined

Info

Producer:

Burn Cottage Vineyard

Vintage:

2020

Country:

New Zealand

Region:

Central Otago

Appellation:

Central Otago

Variety:

Pinot Noir

Color:

Red

Farming Practice:

Practicing Biodynamic

Sizes Available

Full Bottle

NZ-BCV-22-20

6/750ml

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Press & Reviews

James Suckling

Score

Date

2023-03-22

Wine Advocate

Score

Date

2023-12-14

"The 2020 Sauvage Vineyard Pinot Noir is from Bannockburn and is so different from the Burn Cottage Vineyard in aromatics and presence. On the nose, the wine is throaty and full, with cherries, pomegranate, raspberry pip and pink peppercorns. This is supple, rich and full, with pastry, pepper-rolled pastrami, violets and brine. Excellent wine. It's bigger than the Burn Cottage Vineyard. There is a lovely chalky and gently grippy tannin splay through the finish. Sixteen percent whole cluster, 20 days on skins, three coopers and four different clones: clone 5/Pommard, clones 6, 115 and 777."

REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES

Vinous

Score

Date

2023-04-27

Wine Spectator

Score

Date

2022-08-17

James Suckling

Score

Date

2023-11-03

"Juicy and lively strawberries, red plums and lavender followed by vanilla beans, salted caramel and a touch of squeezed orange wedge. Mineral. Medium-bodied wine with fine velvety tannins and acidity. Very precisely framed wine with great harmony. It,s beautiful already but will age gracefully. Drink or hold."

Vinous

Score

Date

2024-05-14

"The 2021 Pinot Noir Sauvage Vineyard is succulent, tender and feels unforced. Sitting comfortably on the palate, it already has a sense of approachability. It displays black cherries and fruit cake alongside integrated oak-derived cedar notes. Fine tension and a line on the finish provide an attractive sinewy element, drawing the wine out on the medium-long finish. The 2021 is done in a well-considered, unadulterated style."

Wine Advocate

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Date

2023-12-14

"The 2021 Sauvage Vineyard Pinot Noir is supremely pretty. It's elegant and fine and still powerful, thanks to the Bannockburn area; however, the wine itself shows rose petals and spring flowers, graphite and pencil lead, white pepper and tapenade. Svelte and sleek, this is composed and detailed and so, so good. I am (mostly) resisting hyperbole and adverbs here. This is a standout wine from a superstar producer—an asset for the region and indeed the country (and the New World in general). 13.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork."

Wine Spectator

Score

Date

2024-07-10

"Well-structured, with a firm backbone to complement the dense core of flavors, including blackberry, wild blueberry and red fruit notes. Accents of Earl Grey tea and white pepper, plus hints of dried rose petal, forest floor and salted black licorice, linger on the long, expressive finish. Drink now through 2033. ‡M.W."

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