St Huberts Pinot Noir 2007 Tuesday, May 13 2008
Tasting Notes and Australia and Yarra Valley and Variety and Red and pinot noir
The Chardonnay of the same vintage is a pretty good wine, smoky mind you, but otherwise excellent. I’ll review it later. This on the other hand, should most likely not have been released. I don’t normally review lesser wines but this is fully priced, and from a company not lacking in resources.
It smells good with dark cherry, peat smoke and spice - rich and inviting. On the palate medium to full bodied with black cherries, Chinese plum sauce, spice and some peaty smoke flavours (think Talisker) but texturally it feels distinctly odd - shapeless, denatured, acrid and rubbery. Most unnatural, it holds a sort of car crash fascination, and while drinkable affords little pleasure.
Rated : 84 Points
Tasted : May08
Alcohol : 13.5%
Price : $31
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2008 - 2008
Source : Winery Sample
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May 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am| Quote |
Gary, Do you know if these guys share any winemaking/growing resources with Coldstream Hills? Seems odd the same company would release such a wine (assuming your review is on the money that is!).
May 13th, 2008 at 11:03 am| Quote |
Don’t know. I’ve had worse examples of 07 Yarra Pinot mind you but this just seems strange. The ones that go through RO or carbon filtering look odd. Apparently the 07 Coldstream Hills Pinot is a good wine. Not tried it though as I missed the tasting at the winery last year as I had to leave early. You just have to call em as you find them. The 07 Shelmerdine Pinot is very smoky but that wine works for me. It’s all down to the palate with the smoke issue I think. I think you should try one yourself…oh and of course some of the 07 Yarra’s have no smoke taint at all. Depends on the site and frost status apparently.
GW
May 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am| Quote |
I can’t see Coldstream letting something like this past. I don’t think Halliday would be impressed. I know he doesn’t own it any more, but he is still associated with it and I think is involved with blending sometimes(?).
May 13th, 2008 at 12:38 pm| Quote |
Isn’t that Fosters? If they share the same resources as Coldstream Hills that is?
May 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pm| Quote |
Gary
You dont think this bottle was slighty reductive do you??.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm| Quote |
No.
GW
May 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pm| Quote |
Good up the good work!
May 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pm| Quote |
Oh yes. The bad reviews enthusiast..
GW
May 13th, 2008 at 4:57 pm| Quote |
Schadenfreude…the pleasure in someone else having to consume the crappy wine for you….or just seeing a crappy score.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:48 pm| Quote |
Rest assured there’s a fair bit of it..but then again there is all the good stuff too.
GW
May 13th, 2008 at 6:35 pm| Quote |
ant said :
No, no. Just one less wine that I don’t have to agonize over buying or not. So many good wines out there at the moment and avoiding poor choices is paramount!
May 13th, 2008 at 6:36 pm| Quote |
GW could be wrong
May 13th, 2008 at 6:59 pm| Quote |
I think you should buy one and report back…
GW
May 14th, 2008 at 11:02 am| Quote |
It’s a dud wine.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am| Quote |
With that glowing report I’m going to trot up to the cellar door and try it myself!