Winemaker's Notes:

A beautiful Pinot Noir filled with ripe cherries and raspberries at the nose, perfect company to the vibrantly youthful ruby red color. The palate is rich with a good mid palate weight and length. It is fruity but balanced by soft tannins and delicate acidity.

This Pinot Noir is grown in a vineyard of the Tamar Valley of Tasmania that consistently provides ripe dark berry fruit flavors. It is also a naturally low yielding vineyard that results in quite intense and weighty wines. As usual, the Tasmanian cool climate provides the natural acid that lends balance. Good rainfall early in the season was followed by warm and dry conditions throughout harvest. In order to protect and preserve the vibrant fruit flavors of the vineyard this Pinot Noir only spent six months in new and old French oak barriques.

Reviews:

“ Rating 90.
Generous plum and cherry fruit; supple and smooth; as yet, not especially complex, but should develop complexity. ” — James Halliday, Wine Companion

“ 90 Points.
The 2006 Pinot Noir was aged for five months in 80% new French oak. Aromas of cherry, strawberry, and rhuberb are enticing, leading to a smooth-textured wine with plenty of succulent fruit, good balance, and grip. Drink it over the next 6 years. ” — Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate

“ 90 Points.
Light red. Smoky raspberry and cherry aromas are perked up by bright minerality and Asian spices. Deeper cherry and bitter chocolate on the chewy, deep palate. The spicy character repeats on the long, juicy finish. I find more sweetness and suavity here than in many Tasmanian pinots, which can be a bit screechy. ” — Stephen Tanzer