Desert Heart Pinot Noir 2008

Desert Heart

Desert Heart is one of New Zealand’s distinguished boutique vineyards on the iconic Felton Rd, Bannockburn, Central Otago. Desert Heart’s award winning wines are grown on our own Felton Road Vineyards, which display the bright fruit characteristics of classical Pinot Noir. The name Desert Heart was chosen to pay tribute to the land, because Pinot Noir, more than any other grape reflects where it is grown, and to the historical reference to the name of Bannockburn, “Heart of the Desert", from the gold rush era and due to its atypical climatic conditions.

Tasting Notes

dried fruit aromas of date and dried cherry. Some varietal signatures remain with a pinosity from a sense of minerality and earthy qualities, other red fruits of plum and old raspberry. Dry with fine tannins, but drying out the palate as well overpowering the fruit, just medium acidity.