This house red is a sweet concentrated effort, with as much concentration as your average scorched shitty £20 US bottle of this grape but without the over-roasted qualities, and also without the pukey diluted qualities of your average cheap burgundy. Now it is sweet (lots of residual sugar, but all in balance...) Really classy and worth a go. A notoriously difficult grape in an unfamed terroir, yet a great result.
Everyone knows that great burgundy can have big concentration, but, unlike Bordeaux, tannic backbone and resulting structure are less in the picture. And this pinot follows that same rule. Dump a teaspoon of brown sugar and a slug of Ribena into a decent Meo-Cazumet, and you will probably nail the Ropiteau Pinot Noir flavour.
Pinot Noir Ropiteau 2007, 8-/10, Gimme a slam after midnight.
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