- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
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Patrick Eckel
January 07, 2025
Wine Rating
95
The Gumboot clone, as legend goes it came from the DRC vineyard in Burgundy. This is the most impactful and complete of the clone series from Sidewood, a delicious...
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Patrick Eckel
Updated
January 07, 2025
Wine Rating
94
I look forward to tasting the single clone releases each year, it shows the different characters that the clones bring to a finished wine, the Oberlin clone is less...
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Patrick Eckel
January 07, 2025
Sidewood continue to produce great quality and value Pinot Noir, with the 2023 having elegance and prettiness from a cooler year, whilst still having a pervasive savouriness. ...
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Patrick Eckel
January 01, 2025
Wine Rating
95
A vibrant but light red in the glass with a nose that gives sour red cherry with baking spice and cranberry. The palate is medium bodied with a cherry...
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Patrick Eckel
January 01, 2025
Wine Rating
93
There were 39% whole bunches and the wine was aged in one year old French oak before bottling. The nose sees...
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Patrick Eckel
January 01, 2025
Wine Rating
94
A light, slightly cloudy red in colour, wonderfully spicey with earthen undertones to vibrant red cherry fruit. The palate shows the influence of whole bunch with smoke and savoury...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
87
The nose shows stewed red berry fruits and some bone broth and earth aromatics; the palate is more variertal with compact red cherry fruits that have textural tannins and fine...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
93
A vibrant but light red in the glass, with aromatics of red cherry and more earthen like spice. The palate shows a wine that is varietally correct and saturated with...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
93
A medium red with good clarity; lovely density of red and black cherry with the silky and spiced influence of oak (even though only 15% new). ...
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Patrick Eckel
December 07, 2024
Wine Rating
93
A medium red in the glass with a classical nose of spiced black cherry fruit with a cool thread of earth and subtle sweeter aromatics of new oak. The palate...