Ok, so I'm writing this post while sitting at the window of the bar in the Renwick Country Club where I'm staying whilst working in Marlborough. It's just the landlord and myself, one drinking coffee the other beer. The regulars are at work, the bar stools are up on the tables and Good Morning New Zealand is on the television. The bar seems strange, no customers, no one drinking (apart from me), the clean beer towels and the morning sunlight striking dust as it lazily drifts
around. Whilst everyone else gears up for work i gear down and as the cleaner comes in and vacuums up the vagrant dust i notice one of our wines sitting in the fridge.
Over the next couple of weeks these posts may become sporadic and quite possibly be just random gibberish. I will try to pass on whatever information i pick up,
this will be words of experience, not from me, but from those who have worked this job, taken the knocks and learnt things the hard way. I will l return to the more focused wine topic analysis once i can get back to the more formal lines of research
and when the misty fog of fatigue lifts. Until then i hope this blog will continue to inform, amuse and entertain.
Shingle Peak Reserve Marlborough Pinot Noir. 2007.
A pale scarlet colour releases a simple aroma of cherry's and cassis. This is a supple Pinot with easy going tannins and red fruit acidity. This wine is difficult to criticise but maybe thats the point? If any one can answer why this 2007 vintage pinot justifies labelling itself reserve, then please let me know.
A Pinot th
at drinks well on its own.
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