2018 Tasmania Pinot Noir

“The bouquet is bright and fresh,” he began, “and is becoming complex, layered, with smoky charcuterie, bitter herbs, freshly turned earth and some underlying sulfides. The palate is rich and full, rounded and succulent, well endowed with soft, fleshy tannins. A very smart wine indeed.” Bennie thought “the stems and oak overdone”. The aromatic nose suggests some whole bunches in there with the red plum. 2017 Chatto Huon Valley (A$55) opened with a bit of reduction, which soon breathed off.
Lovely elegantly styled wine.” This was another wine where I thought the grapes had been distinctly ripe, although the plummy fruit combines well with more pressing matters pinot noir 2018 savoury flavours. I found it quite firm, so give it a couple of years. 2017 Chatto Isle (A$85) found Hooke again a top pointer, with me alongside.

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“Intense red cherry, redcurrant with herb, aniseed and a hint of mocha-like complexity,” Caillard noted. “Well concentrated fruit-sweet wine with deep set red cherry, strawberry, redcurrant flavours, stalky sapid textures, some new oak notes and integrated acidity. Finishes bittersweet.” I liked its touch of cedary oak and the development that’s adding further to the complexity. I considered several ways to cut our notes for publication – by vintage or by area – but I decided to keep it simple and navigable, so they are alphabetical.
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You select your budget, frequency & taste, we'll deliver the best hand-selected European wines to your door. Lindy and Claudio also travelled together to various wine regions in Italy, France and USA. Our flagship wine for the lovers of fine red Burgundies.

Pioneering clonal selection gives consistency of up front fruit and palate balance from old vine material. These 30 Year old vines give low yields with increase concentration and flavour. Predominantly Vertical Shoot Positioned trellises, which expose bunches to the sun, thus achieving full maturity with well-balanced flavours and fine, ripe tannins. Meticulously managed vines from the original plantings produce moderate yields of fully ripened fruit.
Our 100% Biodynamic, estate-grown Primavera Pinot Noir is made to be approachable, with silky tannins, soft acid and great generosity of fruit flavour. Tasmania has a cool climate, but it is also very maritime. The crops around the state consequently vary greatly from year to year, driven more by spring weather than by drought. Contrary to mainlanders’ beliefs, the east and south in Tassie are in a rain shadow and almost always dry in summers. Much has changed in Tasmania in the eight years since the panel looked at the region’s pinot noir, and they have found some impressive wines.

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Winemaking became a hobby which then developed into a career. Winemaking at Cassegrains also involved overseeing contract work in Coonawarra, Mildura and Griffith. The hallmarks of power, concentration, complexity and great length feature in this wine. A magnificent wine reflecting the unique terroir of our site. Freycinet Pinot Noir was included in this category. Stoney Rise is owned and operated by Joe and Lou Holyman who are building a reputation for making some of the Apple Isle's finest Pinot Noirs.
Alluring aromas of spicy black cherries, ripe raspberries and plum fruits combine with a subtle perfume of game, truffle and cedar. Select parcels of fruit was picked then de-stemmed prior to fermented on skins with the use of select yeast stains. Following fermentation, the wine was bottled to capture its full fruit flavours. Established in the year 2000 with an eye to produce wines that are food friendly and complex without too much oak or overripe fruit characters.