Buyer's Guide to New Zealand Wines 2007

Michael Cooper

Two Paddocks Pinot Noir 2005

The excellent 2005 vintage (4 stars) is from a very low yielding season in which the fruit from the company's vineyards at Gibbston, Earnscleugh and Alexandra was blended into this regional red. Fermented with indigionous yeasts and fermented for ten months in French oak barriques (25% new), it is a stylish wine, deeply coloured and youthful,  with concentrated cherry and spice flavours showing good complexity, and moderately firm tannins

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