Description / Reviews
"All fruit was hand-picked and sorted before processing. With approximately 20% retained as whole bunches to bring additional perfume, spice and tannin to the finished wine. After 16 days on skins, the wine was pressed to stainless steel tanks for the completion of malolactic and primary fermentation. Once completed, the individual batches were transferred to 18% new French oak barriques. The wine matured in barrel for 18 months before being racked and blended in stainless steel in October 2024. Unfined, sterile filtered and bottled on 25th October 2024.
A lifted bouquet of red fruits - strawberries, cherries and cranberries - sits alongside notes of rose petal, musk and quince. Beneath the primary fruit are the variety’s more complex nuances of earth, mushroom and subtle spice, complemented by light, toasty oak. The wine sits in the medium-bodied spectrum, showing generous strawberry and cherry fruit with a fine thread of plum and rhubarb. There is a lively line of acidity and firm but supple tannins that give balance and length. Subtle clove and cedar notes emerge on the finish, together with a touch of smoky oak. The overall impression is of brightness, poise and drive, without excess weight." - Moss Wood, Winemaker
"I’m kind of reluctant to say much about the parochial nature of many WA wine reviewers, though I see this wine did get 97 points from Ray J. Erin Larkin has gone similar in terms of scores for prior vintages. I find that staggering because it puts it at the top of the tree of all Pinot Noir wines in the whole wild world. OK. Yep. I will add, as I invariably do, that I do enjoy Pinot Noir from places where it probably should not be grown.
Yes, it’s a good wine. Peppermint, strawberry, cedar, quite some baking spice and tobacco leaf, caramel, amaro twang and herbs. It’s juicy, quite fleshy, hazelnut and poached strawberry, some blood orange tang, with a gently sooty tannin finish of solid length. A pink peppercorn spice closes it out and some liquorice pastille. It’s a bit soft and squishy, though it does have character. They age pretty well these wines, so there is that. Robust style yet kind of interesting/individual all the same," - 91+ Points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front