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Buy OnlineWinery notes (2020 Vintage)
"A unique parcel within Rippon, Emma’s Block faces eastward on the lakefront where ancient clay reefs run laterally through fine schist gravels. Emma’s Block is named after the great-great-great grandmother of the current generation of the Mills family, through whom the name entered into the family."
98/100 JamesSuckling.com (2020 Vintage)
"This is so opened and perfumed with sliced strawberry, orange and fresh mushroom. Full, velvety and caressing texture and finish. Articulate. Seductive. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold."
96/100 Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, November 2022 (2020 Vintage)
"It’s a pale but vibrant ruby colour in the glass. Light, attractive scents of fragrant roses, lavender, just ripe raspberry, white pepper and sage leaf. Pretty. Maybe a saline whiff too. The palate is super fine, decidedly a pyre, lighter, tense expression, but with hallmark detail in tannin profile making for a refreshing and memorable wine. Very fresh, cranberry, pomegranate and dried herb flavours with briny acidity in tow – the flavours. So very beautiful, fragile almost, and wonderful to drink. Pause and reflect."
95/100 Kasia Sobiesiak, The Wine Front, October 2023 (2020 Vintage)
"High notes of acidity and perfume reaching high up in the nostrils. Bit of a cherry pie, some toast and hazelnut/almond nuance. Juicy and infused with blood orange, red fruit spectrum, bright crunchy cherry, squeaky and with a hint of ground coffee. Beautiful. It has a bright future, this one."
95+/100 Erin Larkin, Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate (2020 Vintage)
"The 2020 Emma's Block Mature Vine Pinot Noir leads with dehydrated cranberry, cherry blossom, graphite and dried star anise. The nose is exotic and restrained at once. This is the entree to the palate which is defined absolutely by the tannins that feel very much like they plume in the wine, like a drop of blood in water. These are wines to feel as much as they are to taste, and this is what helps them stand alone in this place. It’s superb, with unbroken form through the long finish—no strays, no rough edges, no breaks. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam. Drink 2023-2035."
