Kusuda
2020 Kusuda Pinot Noir
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$216.00
Description
WINEMAKER: Hiro Kusuda
REGION: Martinborough, NZ
VARIETAL: Pinot Noir
VITICULTURE: Sustainable
"A fine, almost ethereal Pinot Noir with floral, red rose, violet, red cherry, redcurrant and oyster-shell flavours. It carries the Kusuda trademark of precision, perfection, purity and power. A beautiful wine supported by taut acidity. Should develop well with bottle age." - Bob Campbell MW
Tokyo-born Hiroyuki (known as Hiro) Kusuda trained as a lawyer and worked for Fujitsu, then the Consulate General of Japan in Sydney before giving it all up to pursue his other love, wine and winemaking. He went to Germany, learned the language, enrolled at Geisenheim and then emigrated to New Zealand to pursue both Riesling and Pinot grapes – to which a third challenge, Syrah, has now been added. The choice of New Zealand in general and Martinborough in particular apparently came about through tasting the 1992 Ata Rangi Pinot Noir.
2020 Kusuda Pinot Noir
$216.00
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