I first tasted and purchased this wine 10 years ago As I remember the wine was big, bold and full flavoured for a Pinot Noir.

At the time for me a typical NZ Pinot Noir, big, bold over the top. A style that I personally don’t like that much.

However this one had something I liked, there was a certain beauty to the power of the wine, black cherry on the nose that followed through to the palate.

Ten years on – I cracked opened the stelvin enclosure, AKA screw cap. And not surprisingly the wine was as I remembered it to be: almost the same wine that I tasted 10 years ago.

Yes, it had aged and developed slightly.

But at the end of the day it had not changed a hell of a lot. Just rounded out and the boldness softened with age. But unmistakably Brodie est.

Now having said that, the juicy red fruit flavours had remained. The ripe slightly spicy fruit aromas on the nose as I recalled, were sill there.

The wine was still surprisingly youthful, yet it has obvious age and had gained mature characters.

I believe this wine was at its best with 10 years age, but still has the grunt to hold on for a few more years. Will it continue to develop further, may be not?

There are no great wines, Just great bottles of wine. A great old bottle of NZ Pinot Noir.

The Food

I had planed ahead with this one. Expecting exactly what I got from this wine.
BBQ lamb cutlets lightly charred & cooked pink Creamy butter mashed potatoes
Garden picked fresh peas with mint Roasted Queens Land blue pumpkin skin on


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