Doctors Flat Pinot Museum Stock

"Perfumed and floral with nice black cherries. Quite rich. Lovely sleek, ripe black cherry fruits and a spicy, mineral dimension. " JG 92

"About 20% whole bunch. Fresh and lively with nice precision. Bright with lovely focus: not too heavy, with nice sweet cherry and berry fruit. Has vitality and focus and could use a bit more time. " JG 94

The story of Doctor's Flat Vineyard begins in the late 1980s, in France and California, where Steve Davies first encountered great practitioners of old world winemaking, and the best of new world innovators. By 1999 Steve had settled in Central Otago, making Pinot for Akarua and on the hunt for his own land. He was looking for something in particular—a site that would offer all the conditions he had come to believe were essential for great Pinot. It was a long and thorough search, and in 2002 he found it, an elevated site on deep glacial gravels in Bannockburn. After then making wine for Carrick and supplying grapes to Valli,...