BURN COTTAGE VINEYARD PINOT NOIR 2021

Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"Enticing lifted floral notes with blue and red fruits, hints of pepper spice and orange zest accompany the characteristic wet stone and mineral elements from this vineyard. Supple and seamless with lovely palate length and structural tannins framing the wine. Enjoyable over the coming years, this wine will also reward cellaring to 10-12 years."

96/100 Erin Larkin, RobertParker.com, Wine Advocate, February 2025 (2021 Vintage)
"The 2021 Burn Cottage Vineyard Pinot Noir is alive and energetic, svelte and composed. As I write this, I am sitting at the bottom of the Burn Cottage Vineyard in Lowburn, looking up the rows. This is a mineral, nuanced expression, with graphite and white tea, pomegranate pearls, raspberry licorice, rosehips and crushed pink peppercorns. This is what I came here for. It’s thrilling, lacy, delicate and focused. Exciting wine, exciting drinking. It sits on the palate nicely—evenly weighted, and it spools through the long finish… yes!"

96/100 Emma Jenkins MW, Decanter UK, October 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"From the biodynamically farmed home vineyard in Lowburn. A lively and complex character. Lavender, thyme, blueberry, cherry and pomegranate with earth, spice and a dense mineral vein. A lovely sappy, tonic-like vitality that belies the serious core of dense savoury fruit beneath. Very charming. Time will only deepen the layers to explore."

94/100 Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, May 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"Raspberry, cherry, chamomile and rosehip tea, exotic spice, juniper and venison (but don’t mind me). It’s juicy, kind of ‘mineral’ but also supple and ripe in the tannin department, almost leaning into Beaujolais in a way, with its structure and vaguely come-hither floral character, a fine and dusty grab of tannin, but softly softly and charming is the way it goes, and then there’s something of a stony quality on a finish of fine length. Some poached strawberry dusted with pepper and dried herb in the mix too. Lovely wine. Can’t quite decide on 94 or 95 points, but distinct and different. Either way."

Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, April 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"A vibrant, complex bouquet filled with scents of garrigue and ripe red berry fruits, a fine savoury quality reflects region, and organic soils with a fine chalk and clay quality reflect site. A complex, dry and youthful wine touches the palate with flavours of red and dark skinned cherry, mangosteen berries and sweet barrel spices. Polished tannins with a backbone of acidity, a velvet mouthfeel and lengthy finish. Delicious, youthful and lengthy. Keep this one in the cellar please, with best drinking from 2027 through 2037."