日本代购-容量:750ml※ラベルと瓶の間に空気が入った浮いたシワがございます。ご了承ください。ワイナリーの目の前にあり、ベンディゴ全体を一望できる場所に位置するホーム・ヴィンヤード。北向きのテラス状になった標高320~400m近くの急斜面の畑は、日当たりが良い一方で夜間は冷涼になるため、深い風味とフレッシュで凝縮された味わいのワインが生み出されます。 ブドウ畑は稀有な混合土壌。片岩と石英が、セントラル・オタゴにおいては珍しい粘土と混ざり合います。特に、土壌の深さ約1mをチョーク層が貫いているのが特徴。因みにキュヴェ・オー・アンティポードのピノ・ノワールが生まれるのは、ホーム・ヴィンヤードに位置する日照の少ない西寄り約1haの専用区画「フランソワズ・ブロック」です。パーカーズ・ワインアドヴォケイト97+点 「The 2023 Home Vineyard Pinot Noir is grown on a pocket of pedogenic limestone, clay and schist. The wine is possessed of a mineral presence that is alluring to the point of thrilling, with a mineral seam of tannin that runs from the front to the back of the palate and out into the long finish. It draws the fruit flavor along with it, meaning I am left with a textural linger of flavor and shape long after the wine has gone. The wine is eminently red fruited and spiced, with raspberry seed, sweet pouch tobacco, crushed rocks, iodine in small measure, dried herbs and brine. The finish is almost as good as the lead-in, all elements of the wine working together in a swirl of cooperation and harmony. The beauty of the 2023s from Central Otago (and the South Island generally) has dawned on me, after tasting a huge number of them over the past six months. It wasn't presented as a vintage I should watch out for; rather, the wines speak for themselves. They have energy, detail, poise and life. The extraction management in the winery is extremely specific and sparing, meaning the tannins that we live with here in the glass are mostly vineyard-derived, and what is better than that? This is chalky, chewy and pliable, and the tannins are elongating and lengthening. 13% alcohol, sealed under Diam.」