Bottle of the Week: First Sighting Special Cuvee Pinot Noir 2014
Adamastor still huffs and puffs and blows grapes off the vines.
Pinot noir is called the heartbreak grape because it is difficult to grow and charges like a wounded buffalo. With a few exceptions.
When GetWine offered unlabelled La Vierge Pinot it sold out in three days. This pinot will likely suffer the same fate. So do not dawdle if you’re partial to the fresh and lightly fruited – strawberries and cherries – style.
The “first sighting” of the brand name refers to the Portuguese explorers who whizzed past the Cape with the phantom Adamastor on their tail.
Adamastor still huffs and puffs and blows grapes off the vines. The serious ones are left hanging and are carefully picked and pressed into this spicy red.
Rating: ***
***** Leviathan
**** Kraken
*** Charybdis
** Hydra
* Great white
