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  • Country ranking ?

    179
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    Now-2030
  • Food Pairing

    Chicken pita, grilled veal & crispy pork

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The Story

APPELLATION: Yarra Valley
VINEYARDS: Applejack, Primavera, Sexton, Tarraford, Wombat Creek
VARIETAL: 100% Pinot Noir

VINIFICATION:
Natural winemaking philosophy, while making quality the priority. Minimal intervention in the vineyard and 100% hand-picked.
Fermented in 4000L open oak vats and stainless steel fermenters using indigenous yeasts. 20% whole bunch.
Delestage by gravity, some light hand plunges and pigeage.
100% malolactic ...

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Wine Information

Alc/Vol (%): 13.5
TA (g/L): 6.56
pH: 3.49
CELLARING: Now - six years

SEASON: 2017 really was a sensational vintage! Good intermittent rainfall with cool to mild temperatures, and not a day over 40 degrees during the summer months marked 2017 out as a classic cool climate vintage. All varieties came in later than average, ripening at an unhurried pace in these ideal growing conditions, producing wines of incredible structure, detail and l...

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Vintage 2017

AUSTRALIA VINTAGE REPORT: The 2017 winegrape crush is estimated to be 1.93 million tonnes, based on responses received by the Wine Sector Survey 2017. This crush is 5 per cent higher than the 2016 final crush figure of 1.84 million tonnes (Department of Agriculture and Water Resources – Levies recorded figure). It is the third consecutive vintage where the tonnes crushed have increased.

Additional tonnes this year came relatively equally fr...

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Trophy for Best Pinot Noir, gold medal, 95 points. Not hard to see the appeal here. A picture-perfect, mid-weight Yarra Valley Pinot. 

Succulent, varietal and jumps out of the glass. Lovely bright and varietal style, though maybe it falls away a smidgen on the lightly bitter finish. So Pinoty and so expressive. 18.5/20, 94/100

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Origin

Healesville , Yarra Valley

Grapes

100% Pinot Noir

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