Pinot Noir

Accolades

95 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review

Gold Medal, Yarra Valley Wine Show 2020

Vineyard

Fruit for this wine was sourced from the Yarra Yering planting of Pinot Noir, containing some of the oldest vines of their type in the Yarra Valley. A mixed planting of four clones was undertaken in 1969, then followed up with replication in 1981 (top of the slope) and 1984 (bottom of the slope).

Winemaking

The grapes were hand-picked and chilled overnight. Processing the following day along a fruit sorting table and destemmed gently into half-tonne open-fermenters. Stalks were added to some of the fermenters to contribute subtle structure, complexity and aroma. Working of the ferment by gentle hand plunging twice

daily contributes to the soft fruit palate along with gentle pressing. Maturation

for 10 months in all French barrels with 30% new and the balance older oak.

Wine

Violet perfumed nose, mixed cherry fruits with a pinch of aniseed spice.

Red cherry fruits explode on the front palate. A silky elegance combined with very fine tannin structure, both grape and oak tannin, produce a medium-bodied yet powerful style, the 2018 delivering a juicy fruit palate; immediately delicious.

Cellaring

Pinot Noir is such an enjoyable young wine. If you can keep yourself away for up to 10 years under suitable cellaring conditions you will be rewarded.

13.0% Alc.