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Really, really good pinot. This is the blessed glory of a medium-weight, low-on-colour , long, fragrant, structured wine. Rose petals, mulch, cherries and sap, the flavour of stalks noticeably less than I remember it from years past. Biting tannins – appropriate to its cellarbility. Deserves its place at the top of the Australian pinot tree. This is the kind of pinot that could only have come from mature vines grown on an excellent site.
Drink: 2012-2018. 95 points.
"2002: James Halliday (Australian Wine Companion 2008)
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Exceptional deep red-purple; a super-intense and focused array of dark plum and chery fruit. Is it worth it? Yes. Will it age? Yes. Rating 97.
To 2017
2005: November 2008 Ralph Kyte-Powell (The Age)
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From the close-planted, mature Geelong vineyard that provides some of this region's best wines, this is typically multi-faceted and mysterious. It grows in stature and dimension in the glass, developing foresty, plummy notes, spice and earthy complexity. Sumptuous in texture with wild slightly feral flavours and fine tannins, its gamey, long and rich.
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