This pinot from Seven Terraces shows some strange "tangy" fruit flavors -- and another rarity: the ability to taste like seedless black grapes (a "purple" fruit, as I call it). It is very unusual for a wine to end up tasting like grapes, but there's no question about that here. Marlborough pinot noirs are interesting -- but they still have a long way to go to reach the standards set in places like Martinborough, Central Otago, Sonoma County, and the Willamette Valley.
$22; 87 points
Bottom Line: There's nothing really wrong with this wine, but the fruit expression is strange.


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