LAWSON’S DRY HILLS RESERVE PINOT NOIR 2021

Winery notes (2021 Vintage)
"This wine highlights all that is great about Pinot Noir – lovely bright fruit with an elegant, supple mouthfeel and beautifully balanced. The nose has tempting raspberry and cherry aromas with a touch of spicy, sweet French oak. The palate echoes these characters, wrapping them up in a lovely soft, yet juicy texture.

The grapes were gently crushed and the juice run into small, open-top fermenters and held cold for five days’ maceration. The vats were then inoculated with a specially selected, cultured yeast to trigger fermentation. During fermentation the wine was either hand-plunged or pumped over to gently extract colour, tannin and flavour. The resulting wines were left on skins for around seven days post-ferment before pressing to predominantly old French oak barriques (just 5% new). The wine was blended after ten months maturation in barrel."

Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, May 2024 (2021 Vintage)
"An understated complexity and power with a core of ripe red berry fruits and barrel spice layers. Delicious, fresh and youthful on the palate with salivating textures and core ripe fruit flavours that reflect the bouquet. Spiced red plums and cherry, moments of raspberry and saline flinty ideas. Well made with polished tannins and decent acid line, and excellent use of French oak. Best drinking from 2025 through 2030+."