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WINERY RATING |
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| James Halliday, |
Australian Wine Companion 2010 |
Colour: Vibrant, rich red
Aroma: Dense black cherry and red plum, with sweet spice tones and integrated cedar oak.
Palate: A full, rounded palate with ripe and rich cherry fruit and a balance blend of toasty oak adding depth and complexity. The tannins are ripe and soft giving a full structured mouthfeel seamlessly integrated with ripe Pinot fruit characters.
Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir sourced from our estate vineyard at Relbia in northern Tasmania.
Winemaking: Hand picked Pinot Noir is gently destemmed with minimum berry breakage and placed in small batch open top fermenters with regular plunging to immerse the skins and extract colour and tannin as gently as possible. After pressing the wine undergoes malolactic fermentation in French oak Barriques and is matured in oak for 12 months prior to bottling. A further 12 months ageing in bottles is undertaken before the wine is released.
Cellaring: Whilst very approachable now, the richness of fruit and fine tannins with further cellaring will reward you with a complex, spicy wine.
Serving Suggestions: Roast venison, duck and other game meats.
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