Jan de Weerd

9.2

Earthy, great dark fruit. Fuller body than most Pinot’s we tasted. — 2 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

8.8

Dry dark fruit, tannin edge. Single note. perhaps way too young. — 5 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Cruising Central Otago in search of the perfect Pinot. Learning a lot. Today we were in the Bannockburn region. Forward vibrant red fruit. The standard Pinots estate blends we found somewhat single note with a fairly strong green edge for most wineries. Had to get to the slightly more aged, single blocks to pick up better balance and complexity. This one was like that. We met with Sara, the proprietor. Couldn’t find a better host. What a fun person, very passionate about what she is doing. A warm person in a cold climate 😊. — 10 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

9.0

Nice bity Pinot at the start, but it flattened out too quickly and lost structure. Still remaining it’s fruit and earthy finish. — 3 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

9.1

Oldest winery in New Zealand, so they claim. Missionaries from the French Catholic Church settled near Napier, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand back in 1851 and started making wine for sacrament, communion. Now it is one of the largest wineries, big business. Well over a 100,000 cases per year. The wine however, was good. Especially their Cab/Merlot blend. It was rich in taste, expressive fruit of plum, currant and dark cherry. Tobacco tannins. Well balanced with a soothing finish. — 5 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

9.2

Earthy finesse, complex, clean cherry/current and a tangling, slightly spicy finish — 15 days ago

Jan de Weerd

9.1

Intense tannins. Full bodied but somewhat single note with the over powering tannins. At first a bit of a barnyard smell. Maybe need to put away for 10 years and try again — a month ago

with Gert-Jan and Tammy

Jan de Weerd

9.0

Another nice Pinot from New Zealand - the Martinborough region. Nice, easy drinking, well balanced and very fruity with flavors of strawberry, raspberry and some darker cherry. Lacking the mineral edge that we picked up from the Central Otago Pinot’s. Good news is, we got more to test! 👍 — 4 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

9.3

You know that smell when it starts to rain on hot, scorched earth...that are the subtle hints in this wine. Fruit forward Pinot with black berry, red licorice, currant and...peppered expresso. Would develop further but we were too eager to try ...or ... perhaps getting worried about how we would carry all this wine back to the US 😳 so, why not start drinking it 😄 👍 — 7 days ago

with Tammy

Jan de Weerd

8.8

Fruit forward, sour cherry, high acidity Chianti with a nice dark, minerally/iron edge. — a month ago

with Tammy