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Select Blocks Pinot Noir

This wine has seduction on its mind. It wants to bewitch you with spicy berry flavours and a little toasted oak. It’s also a great keeper, if you’re disciplined enough to keep a wine cellar.

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Cellaring

This seductive wine can be enjoyed immediately or may be cellared for at least 5 years.

Tasting Notes

The Ara Select Blocks Pinot Noir exhibits succulent boysenberry and cherry aromas lightly seasoned with toasted oak and framed by long fine grained tannins.


Download v2009 tasting notes

Download v2010 tasting notes

Download v2011 tasting notes

Our favourite meals

Sticky Hoisin Pork.

Keep this meal light by serving along side some steam Asian greens like bak choy choy sum and gai larn.

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Select Blocks - Pinot Noir

90 Points

The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2010

4 Stars

Michael Cooper, Buyers Guide to New Zealand Wines v2010 and v2011

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