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DAMNED NICE TO DRINK NOW: Aldgate Ridge 2004 Pinot Noir

Here's a really interesting meat-and-bones meets plums-and-cherry-skin bouquet with similar palate characters, good body and middle-weight structure built by Torbreck winemaker Dave Powell. It's the only pinot he makes, is damned nice to drink now and will probably cope with a few years in the cellar as well. SEE CLIPPING

Tony Love
The Advertiser (Adelaide) 14 February 2007

POWERFUL PINOT: Aldgate Ridge 2004 Pinot Noir

This is a pinot that will age very well. It's meaty and spicy and herbal, the flashes of beetroot and stalk daring to polarise opinion. It's 100% varietal though, and has quite a b it of gutsy, sour-cherry-like fruit stuffed in its belly, leading to a sustained, juicy finish. Well structured, well defined, powerdul pinot. SEE CLIPPING

Campbell Mattinson
The Wine Front (www.winefront.com.au) 2 January 2007