Medium red. Purer red fruits on the nose than the Clayvin bottling, with complicating mineral and spice notes. Higher pitched and less extractive in style, but still with rather backward flavors of dark cherry, plum, mint, earth and smoked meat. Finishes a bit youthfully clenched, but with suppler tannins than those of the Clayvin. This could use a bit more fruit-as well as more time in bottle. With extended aeration, this became at once more decadent and more dry. (A second bottle was more earthy and dusty and would have merited about 85 points.) Fromm is a member of the "Family of 12," a group of top independent producers from all over New Zealand who have banded together to market their wines internationally. But although this winery has a strong reputation in New Zealand, most of the pinots I've tasted in recent years have struck me as rather low-toned and earthy.