Fromm La Strada Marlborough Pinot Noir 2015

Description

"The fragrant bouquet shows beautifully ripe cherry, plum, clove and floral characters with hints of game and nutmeg notes. The palate is rounded and elegantly weighted, and delivers excellent fruit purity and delicate savoury complexity, wonderfully structured by fine, chalky tannins. It is expressive and generous, while remaining elegant and poised. At its best: now to 2021. $40.00. Certified organic" Sam Kim, Wine Orbit

"Made from a blend of wines from the Wairau Valley, Brancott Valley and Waihopai Valley with a vine age if 14-25 years. The only Fromm pinot to be filtered and fined or to be sealed with a screwcap. It also spends a week less on the skins than the others. Weighty and reasonably concentrated pinot noir with ripe plum, dark berry and a hint of chocolate. An accessible and appealing wine." Bob Campbell

A bright and pure Pinot with ripe fruit density and savoury undertones. Complex and harmonious with a structural complexity, yet offering lovely drink now approachability.

A blend of the five vineyards & utilizing all 11 of our Pinot clones La Strada expresses three sub-regions of Marlborough (the clay soiled Brancott and Waihopai Valleys plus the alluvial gravel and silt of the Wairau Valley). The nose offers a lovely purity of red/blue fruit (black cherries, blueberries and ripe wild strawberries) and is complimented by subtle integrated oak, graphite minerality an intriguing savoury spice. The palate shows generosity, balance and structure with ripe fruit concentration, layered tannins and focusing acidity.