Escarpment Pinot Noir - 2019 (750ml)

Perfume, elegant fruit flavours, and soft ripe tannins are all hallmarks of this exceptional Pinot Noir.
A typical Martinborough summer has created the distinctive Escarpment style showing complexity, attractive texture and the perfect mix of black, red and green fruit flavours for which Pinot Noir is celebrated.

95 points Cameron Douglas MS

There’s an immediate sense of place with the bouquet and power of this wine, aromas of wild flower and red berries, barrel spice, savoury cherry flesh and roses, plums and light brown kitchen cupboard spices, leather, stilled soil and fine oak sweetness. Delicious on the palate, flavours of cherry and drying strawberry, baking spices and barrel toast, cinnamon and old roses, lees textures and a fine cashew nut oak layer. An abundance of finely tuned tannins and acid line deliver backbone and structure. Unfined realism, elegant, complex and layered wine, a pleasure to taste. best drinking from 2023 through 2030.

94 points Wine Spectator

Complex and detailed, this fragrant red offers notes of gunpowder tea, dried lavender and rosemary, with a touch of sassafras to complement the rich, succulent black cherry, blueberry and blackberry flavors. The tannins offer a firm backbone, but never get in the way. Drink now through 2026. 400 cases imported.

93 points Wine Enthusiast

This is a tasty intro both to Escarpment and to Martinborough Pinot. Three years in the bottle (at the time of tasting) shows a little bottle age, the primary fruit heading into cherry cordial territory, but there's life left here yet. Dried leaf and sap, mushroom, florals and a medicinal character are all wrapped in the region's distinctive tannins. They're powerful yet fine, leaving room for the fruit, spice and freshness. Drink now–2026. — Christina Pickard