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Bloodwood Distinctive Dozen

Stephen Doyle

A special offer for anyone who would like to taste our entire range of a dozen current wines. If you have already been to the cellar door, there are wines included here which we never offer for tastings. From our 2010 bottle-fermented Chardonnay and Pinot Noir sparkling to our late harvest Riesling, there's a wine here for every occasion.

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Bloodwood Pinot Lovers

Stephen Doyle

Bloodwood Pinot Noir is very sensitive and is the most responsive of all our grapes to varying weather conditions. Each year’s climate yields a slightly different emphasis, flavour profile and mouth feel, however all have or develop a distinctive Pinosity, ours is of a lady’s old handbag, a bit of perfume, lipstick and worn leather. (Don’t know where this leaves “the sex in a glass” analogy for Pinot Noir?)

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Pairing food and wine

Stephen Doyle

As if this matters? It used to and may still prove a little useful. Finding the perfect recipe for the way the wine is tasting at this stage in its development is no longer a vital pursuit of mine, given the pandemic. In our isolation I've felt compelled to abandon my insecurities and write about what now seems so indulgent but what I miss already.

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