Creation Pinot clinches Gold at 2018 Decanter Awards - Creation Wines

Creation Pinot clinches Gold
at 2018 Decanter Awards
The Creation Art of Pinot Noir 2016 has once again received
global recognition by winning a gold medal at the 2018
Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). This was the first year
Creation entered its Art range for the prestigious DWWA and
the estate was the only producer in the Hemel-en-Aarde to win
gold for its Pinot Noir.
Awarding it a 95-point score, the DWWA panel described the
wine as follows: “Rich, opulent, luxurious nose of cherry
confit, kirsch cherry liquor, brambleberry fruit and sweet
charm. Big and bold in style with a spicy and savoury palate
depth and excellent length through the finish. Bold but
confident and racy.”

The 2018 DWWA panel comprised a team of 275 judges, including
many of the world’s top experts, who blind tasted the 16 903
wines entered. The Creation Art of Pinot Noir was one of only
240 wines to receive gold. Medal categories correspond to the
100-point scoring system used by Decanter and many top wine

critics around the world. To qualify for a gold medal a wine
had to achieve a minimum score of 95 and be judged
as ‘excellent . . . of great character and complexity’.

According to Creation co-owner and marketing director Carolyn
Martin the grapes for the limited-release 2016 Creation Art of
Pinot Noir were selected from a small pocket within a single
vineyard block, planted on 450-million-year-old clay loam
soils with decomposed Bokkeveld shale.The wine was 30% whole-
bunch fermented to capture the freshness of the cool-climate
grapes and then only a limited barrel selection was bottled
under the Art of Pinot Noir label.

It’s not the first time that the 2016 Creation Art of Pinot
Noir has impressed the connoisseurs. The same vintage received

a   5-star    rating    in   the   2018    edition    of   the
authoritative Platter’s South African Wine Guide while Greg
Sherwood MW recently scored the wine 94+ in a private tasting.

Click here to order the limited-release Creation Art of Pinot
Noir 2016.

Amazing May Meanderings

The month of May of course means springtime in Europe and it
was with a spring in their step that Creation’s Carolyn Martin
and Daniela Messina recently put on their globe-trotting boots
– this time hopping some of the hottest cuisine spots in the
UK, Estonia, Finland, Denmark and France.

Click here to read the complete blog.

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