2020 Schubert Block B Pinot Noir

Kai Schubert's masterpiece is his Block B Pinot, a small production of Dijon clone Pinot Noir, aged in mostly new French oak for 18 months, and designed to age.

Four odd years from vintage and this is looking damn fine. It's still powerful and tense, with a velvety dark fruit core and some lingering, quality tannins.

Complexity is the key - there's earthiness and minerality, depth and subtlety. A truly excellent new world Pinot that would confound and delight the old world drinker.

95 points
"Intense wine with cassis, dark-fleshed plum, blackcurrant, chocolate/mocha and a suggestion of fresh herbs. Rich, warming pinot noir with a backbone of sweet, ripe tannins that suggest cellaring potential although the wine is deliciously drinkable now."
- Bob Campbell MW (The Real Review)

95 points
"Lots of juicy fruit with orange-peel, dried-strawberry and some dried-flower character. Medium to full body with polished, refined tannins that last a long time. Burgundian in nature."
- James Suckling