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December 2004 |
Top
NZ Chardonnays, 95 Points, 5 stars
2002 Fromm La Strada Chardonnay, Marlborough
A good vineyard site and well-above-average investment
in vineyard labour are Fromm's ingredients for producing
on of New Zealand's top chardonnays. This tight, steely
wine has a strong mineral influence reminiscent of good
white Burgundy.
A powerful wine with considerable cellaring potential. |
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Gourmet Traveller Wine |
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December 2004
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La
Strada Pinot Noir 2002, 4 stars
A supple, full-bodied, fruity Pinot, with good character
and
balance. It tastes of black cherry, pomegranate, rose
petal,
and pepper. Medium long finish. |
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Restaurant
Wine issue#103
By Ron Weigand |
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December 2004 |
La
Strada Pinot Noir 1999, 92 Points
Fromm Winery, Marlborough, New Zealand,
This has some of the truffley complexity of Burgundy Pinot.
Good rich fruit – plum and raspberry – and
savoury, truffley intensity and a hint of grass. Interesting
and worthwhile.
Strong herb characters with very good rich fruits and
concentrated flavours. Lovely integrated oak, excellent
weight - a well made wine. Deep rich, earthy with lots
of ripe cherry fruit. |
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Wine International, UK |
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October/November
2004 |
Fromm
Winery 2003 - La Strada Riesling
German – style Riesling with elegance and vibrant
acidity. Moderately sweet.
Fromm 2002 La Strada Chardonnay
Fine, tight wine with a mineral character and impressive
longevity. |
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NZ Home @
Entertaining
Ultimate Wine Guide
By Bob Cambell |
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Vinea 2004 |
La Strada Pinot Noir 2002, 85.3
points – Silver Medal |
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Mondial Du Pinot Noir |
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July 2004 |
Top
wines of the year – December 2004
Fromm La Strada 2001 Marlborough, *** 3 stars |
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Decanter UK |
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July 2004 |
Clayvin
Vineyard Pinot Noir 2001, *** 3 stars
Hints of marzipan, wild raspberries. Big, powerful yet
elegant
bright fruit. Complex, multi-layered, explosive. Still
needs a
little time. 2 years +. |
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Decanter UK
(Rgi) |
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June 6 2004 |
La
Strada Riesling Dry 2002, 88 points
An International Tasting of Rieslings from Austria, Germany,
France, Slovakia, Australia. |
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Riesling tasting,
Vienna, |
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Spring 2004
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Fromm
La Strada Riesling Auslese
“Low
alcohol, off – dry to semi-sweet”
Fromm La Strada Dry Riesling
“Drier, moderate to higher alcohol” |
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Gourmet Traveller Wine
RIESLING – TOP DROPS
By Paul White |
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March 2004
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“Marlborough,
in the South Island has significant plantings
of Pinor Noir.
Fromm Winery is the region’s - and possibly the
nation’s -
leading Pinot producer. Its basic La Strada Pinot Noir
is a richly colored and firmly structured wine. Intense
red cherry and
Spice aromas lead to a silky palate packed with red cherry,
red plum and exotic savory notes.” |
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Skyward, JAL
Group Inflight Magazine,
By Carl Robinson |
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March 2004 |
Wine labels under each major
variety or style that have
consistently yielded in at last 3 recent vintages New
Zealand’s
best wine, name La Strada Riesling, Clayvin Vineyard Pinot
Noir. These are described by Stephen Bennett MW as New
Zealand’s Grand Cru wines. |
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North and South |
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December 2003 |
Just minutes
from Bleheim the Fromm Winery produces
outstanding pinots and rieslings and you can now add
chardonnay to the list. One sip from the
2001
Fromm Winery La Strada Chardonnay and
you’ll be
hooked. A big chardonnay, without the over-oaked qualities
of some fuller-flavoured varieties. It’s an easy-drinking
wine
that will go well with food or without. A lush flavoursome
wine
that lingers on the palate just long enough. |
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Air New Zealand
Inflight Magazine |
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2003 |
La
Strada Pinot Noir 1998, 88 points
Fromm Winery, Marlborough, New Zealand
Deep black cherry aromas – almost indistinguishable
from
Chianti Classico. But good Chianti Classico. Delicious
nose- although rather un-Pinot-like! Heavy extraction,
vanilla and sweet brooding fruit. Cherry. Well balanced
with a good length. |
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Wine Magazine, UK |
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2003 |
Clayvin
Vineyard Pinot Noir 2001
Fromm Winery, Marlborough, New Zealand
Classic clean brambly fruit leaning towards farmyardy
nose.
Very clean wine, with appealing palate of wild berries.
Shows elegance, very purely made. Drink next 2 years. |
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Decanter,
UK |
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February 2003 |
Fromm
2000 Auslese Riesling
Pale wine with a glint of gold and the smell of a flower
garden
after rain; fresh and pretty with a dash of earth. The
taste is
pure Riesling true and clean, trailing a trace of brilliant
fruit that lingers freshly. Stunning stuff, crisp-edged,
and so perfectly poised that its sweet nature is part
of the harmony, rather than
a sticky centrepiece. Best of all, the alcohol level is
so low that every particle of delicacy is left intact. |
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The Listener
By Keith Stewart
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2003 |
I recently
conducted three complrehensive tastings of New Zealand
wine; two in Singapore and one in England. A Fromm
wine was voted the most outstanding wine at each tasting.
The wines were Fromm 1996 Chardonnay, Fromm 1998 Syrah
and Fromm 2000 Clayvin Vineyard Pinot Noir. Those results
reinforced the extraordinary wine quality now being made
in this small Marlborough winery, or, more correctly,
in the vineyards owned or managed by this small Marlborough
producer |
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Cuisine Wine
Country 2003
By Bob Cambell
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June 2002 |
La Strada
Chardonnay 2000
‘ I had one
of my most interesting wine experiences the other
night. Jenny Barb the owner of Singapore’s Cellar
Door Wine
Shop, restaurant and deli, is just nutty about NZ wines.
The experience I refer to was a tasting of New Zealand
chardonnay 13 in fact, and many of them our flag ship
labels.
There was one in particular that stopped many, including
me
in our tracks. A gift to Jenny from Fromm Winery in Marlborough,
it was a single bottle of 1996 La Strada Reserve Chardonnay.
It’s maker Hatsch Kalberer, described it as the
single “most
classy Chardonnay, with the finest structure “ of
any he had
been involved with. He’s not a bit wrong.What first
blew me
away was it’s style, totally unlike any of its similarly
made peers.
I asked our host, the highly respected jetsetter of NZ
wine, Bob Campbell.
If he could pick it as New Zealand chardonnay if he tasted
blind. ’No, I’d have thought It was a fine
white burgundy, he replied. It had a gorgeous nose, altogether
creamy with apricots and a little funky, though you had
to work to pick it up -- it was no means big and fragrant.
Once again, you had to work but it had a complex palate
that run the gamut from caramel, to mealiness, to pear
to flint. An amazing wine. |
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NATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
By Nicholas Bryant |
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