Stoneleigh Latitude Marlborough Pinot Noir 2013

This is normally an easy pick from the Stoneleigh range. Hope this is an odd bottle.

Smoky cherry nose. Quite a leafy edge really – undergrowth ahoy. There’s a real bitter streak through the middle too, an astringency that is really quite unexpected, the wine finishing with a green note.

Not a great amount of pleasure here.

Tasted: April 2015 (sample)
Best drinking: 2015-2020
Score: 15/20, 81/100
Would I buy it? Not on this showing