Posts Tagged ‘Pinot Noir’

Michael Cooper's Wine Guide 2012

Michael Cooper’s 2012 Wine Guide – Prophet’s Rock Reviews

The 20th Anniversary Edition of Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2012 has just been released. Prophet’s Rock has continued its great run of reviews from New Zealand’s most acclaimed wine writer. That’s three vintages of Prophet’s Rock Pinot Noir in a row to receive a 5-Star rating from Michael Cooper. This is

Rocky Point PN 2010 Label Shot

NZ Herald – Rocky Point Punches Above Its Price Point!

The Rocky Point Pinot Noir 2010 has done extremely well in the recent New Zealand Herald VIVA magazine. In the 7th of December, 2011 Issue – I’m dreaming of a wine Christmas, the Rocky Point received the following review: Rocky Point Central Otago Pinot Noir 2010 This seriously good second label pinot from Prophet’s Rock

Posted in All, Pinot Noir, Reviews and Awards by / December 13th, 2011 / No Comments » Read More
WineSoc PR PN07 bottle and Glass Shot

Wine Orbit Reviews – All Prophet’s Rock wines score 90+ Points.

We submitted a full range of the Prophet’s Rock and Rocky Point wines both past and present to New Zealand based wine reviewer Sam Kim, publisher of the independent monthly guide WineOrbit. We were thrilled to receive the following reviews in which the entire range scored 90 points and above. You can read the reviews

Vintage 2006 Grapes in Bucket

Fantastic Wine-Pages.com Review of Prophet’s Rock Pinot Noir

U.K. wine writer Tom Cannavan has been following the Prophet’s Rock wines for some time and recently published this review from a tasting at the Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration in January, 2011. Prophet’s Rock, Pinot Noir 2006 Big, sweet, cedary nose with lots of herbs and spices. The palate has loads of substance, with

Posted in All, Pinot Noir, Reviews and Awards by / June 17th, 2011 / No Comments » Read More
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Raymond Chan Reviews Prophet’s Rock

Prophet’s Rock – European Take in Central Otago The Prophet’s Rock operation based at Bendigo produces wines that are distinctively European in character. One must taste and drink them with a perspective of a vigneron in the Rheingau, Riquewihr or in Pommard to appreciate their style. Mike Mulvey set up the label based on fruit

Les Trois Chateaux, Alsace - Paul was here.

Old Alsace in Otago – New Zealand Herald

A great feature on Prophet’s Rock by John Hawkesby in the New Zealand Herald. “I’ve just tasted one of the world’s best dry Rieslings and it’s from Central Otago.” It’s nice to see such positive support for Riesling from Central Otago, when I moved here the quality of the Riesling simply blew me away. Thanks

Kuentz-Bas Grand Cru Pfersigberg - we had the 1997 vintage of this wine at lunch.

Sue Courtney’s Feature on Prophet’s Rock @ Prime

Read Sue Courtney’s great feature on Prophet’s Rock: A Prime perspective of Prophet’s Rock Again thanks to Sven at Prime for the fantastic lunch which paired beautifully with the line up of Alsace and Prophet’s Rock wines.

Harvest 2006 (3)

Tony Astle from Antoines Retaurant Reviews Prophet’s Rock

Here’s the recent television review for the Prophet’s Rock Pinot Noir on The Beat Goes On – Fast forward to 5:10 for our review. Tony is an icon of the New Zealand restaurant scene with his restaurant Antoines and anyone lucky enough to have dined there can attest to what a magical spot in Parnell

Posted in All, Pinot Noir, Prophet's Rock Feature by / February 10th, 2011 / No Comments » Read More