Spring Creek Estate 2006 Marlborough Pinot Noir

Spring Creek Estate 2006, from the Wairau Valley in Marlborough, Pinot Noir is a wine we picked up at a wine tasting in Warwick, Underwoods, and we thoroughly enjoyed it on the night, and it was a good price for a New Zealand Pinot Noir.
Since then we have ploughed through 7-8 bottles with less enthusiasm, the wine lacks fruit, is a little one dimensional and has a high acidity without the sweet red fruits to balance it, it is pale as expected and does have the tempting Pinot flavour that we all love, but after that it fails to deliver. Better to forget that it is a Pinot Noir and enjoy it for what it is, and we have had it slightly chilled at a barbacue before - and that seemed to suit it. The presence of wood is overpowering - and although I like the use of wood in red wine, this for me was too much.