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Buy OnlineWinery notes (2021 Vintage)
"Dark and brooding on the nose with an abundance of wild black and blue berry fruits, toasted baking spice, dried rose petal and black olive. The palate is powerful yet restrained, balancing fine grained tannins on a knife edge of bright acidity.
Comprised of only the finest select parcels of fruit identified for their distinctive colour, flavour and structural properties. Carefully hand harvested and gently destemmed into small open top fermenters retaining a large proportion of whole berries alongside 16% whole bunch, the fruit is allowed to undergo a natural fermentation and extended post ferment maceration for a total of 30 – 32 days on skins before pressing to 225L French Oak barrels (29% New) where it is matured for 14 months. Bottled without fining or filtration to ensure the beauty we see in the vineyard is reflected in the finished wine."
5 Stars Michael Cooper (2021 Vintage)
"Full, bright ruby, the 2021 vintage was grown at Pisa (63 per cent) and Queensberry (37 per cent), hand-harvested, matured for 14 months in French oak barriques (29 per cent new), and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Highly fragrant it is mouthfilling, with deep, ripe cherry, plum and spice flavours, seasoned with nutty oak. Complex and very savoury, it is a youthful, harmonious, supple red, well worth cellaring to 2025+."
Rated Outstanding & 95/100 Cameron Douglas MS, September 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"An excellent bouquet with a core of ripe, dark skinned red berries and baking spices, plums and clove, baked blackcurrant and old roses, vanilla and some smoky wood moments. Dry, concentrated, focused and new. Salivating as the wine touches the palate with core flavours of dark berries and smoky wood then blackcurrant and baking spices. Firm tannins and acidity set a core foundation for the fruit and signature style. A long finish and youthful power, best drinking from 2026 through 2036+."
5 Stars & 95/100 Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review, November 2023 (2021 Vintage)
"An elegant rather than blockbuster pinot noir with a mix of floral/rose petal, dark cherry, roasted chestnut and subtle spicy flavours. It all adds up to a flavoursome and quite complex wine that I couldn’t drink without feeling pangs of guilt because I really should have waited for a few years."
