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HiGHLY RATED
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A big, flavourful palate of berries, toast and reduction blooms into the height of a summer's day, swooning to complexities of violet and rosewater, liqueured cherries, bitter dark chocolate, scorched almond, soy, leather and spice.
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Navigate your way between the pillars of herculean tannins and fruit, countenance the enchanting waves of cherries and plum, cassis, menthol and dark, red currants. The baby brother to Langi Ghiran Shiraz notwithstanding, this is a monumental wine to bring out with the bravest faire and worthiest company.
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A combination of ripe dark fruits with meatyness and savoury, plum with soy, blueberry with musk. Gloriously delivered within a basket of vanilla and cigarbox oak with polite, yielding tannins, brought to a finish of immeasurable length.
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Mail Coach is made masculine by it's jutting jawbone of steroid tannins and dense, brawny fruit framed by firm oak around a core of cherry, espresso and tar. There's so much to kick back and savour, a chewy, tooth staining winegum of a Shiraz.
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Cherry, charcoal and anise around a core of stalky tannins and smudgy, old closet oak, powerful fruit filled finish and impressive length.
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A cherub of a Pinot wine with a halo of true regional highlights, sweet smelling loam, mace and earth, gum leaf and mint, currant and raspberry, on a wing and a prayer of light, vanilla oak. Refreshingly drying at the finish to lingering expresssions of rhubarb and cola, Yarra Ridge culminates with easing tannins, genteel fruit, poise and natural charm.
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NOT JUST PiNOT
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PiNOT LEGENDS
ESCARPMENT IS A VENTURE BY HEATHCOTE ESTATE/ YABBY LAKE'S DYNAMIC DUO, the Messrs Kirby and McKenna. Vines are planted to alluvial gravel terraces at the base of Aorangi Ranges. "This is the flagship wine of Pinot Noir guru, Larry McKenna. It's a very serious Pinot Noir in a rather Burgundian style. Choc-ful of charm!" -Home Entertaining, "Larry McKenna hails from Australia and won trophy for top Pinot Noir at the International Wine & Spirits competition. One of the most outstanding Pinot Noir makers American wine consumers have never heard of!" -Pinot File
KAYENA VINEYARD MAKES A BIG, generous style of Pinot Noir, unique for weight and power to match game recipes as strong as heavily sauced garlic and rosemary lamb. A good balance of ripe fruit, tannin astringency and cleansing acids persist, thoroughly enjoyable right now, and perfect for short to medium term ageing. Maturation in French oak barriques is showing through with subtle spiciness and just a little extra grip on the palate without dominating in any way. "Rich juicy Pinot, plenty oomph, a good value when compared with it's peers!" -Sydney Morning Herald
YABBY LAKE ARE RENOWNED FOR EXCEPTIONAL BALANCE AND INTENSE PERFUME, speaking clearly of origin, it's all about expression over impression. Complex with great depth of character, the palate is finely structured with dark berry fruits, silky texture and excellent persistence. "Yabby incrementally adjusts its milles feuilles of flavours and summons up the confidence to perform miracles on the world stage. There is extraordinary talent here!" -Top 1OO Australian Wines, "A gorgeous wine, firm structure and beautiful earthy cherry flavours!" -West Australian
DISTINGUISHED LANGTONS CLASSIFICATION. One of Australia's finest Pinot Noir, from low yielding vineyards on the windswept Bellarine peninsula, by a winemaker wholly committed to Burgundian practices. Aromatic with dark cherry and spicy vanilla oak, a velvety palate of plums and gamey flavours. A wine of concentration, power and structure, with unmistakable varietal personality, more muscular and rich than it's euro antecedants. "Powerful, gamey Pinot, the experience of several vintages spent in Burgundy is reflected in Bannockburn!" -New York Times
STONELEIGH'S VINEYARDS ARE LOCATED TOWARDS THE NORTHERN SIDE OF WAIRAU VALLEY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE MIGHTY WAIRAU RIVER. Often referred to as the Rapaura series of soils, they are relatively young, based on river silts and stones, low in nutrients they offer very little water holding capacity. True to the Stoneleigh style, this soft, supple wine captures the essence of Marlborough. Fragrant and flavoursome, it has been fashioned from small blocks of varying clones and rootstocks, achieving a completely integrated and complex style of Pinot Noir
THE PRECIOUS PINOT NOIR YIELDING VINES OF THE NANNY GOAT VINEYARD ARE PLANTED TO HAGGARD ASPECTS ALONG THE FLOOR OF CENTRAL OTAGO'S VALLEY. This is a region of climatic extremes, very hot summers, short autumns and bitterly cold days throughout the winter. Soils are rocky and offer poor fertility, conditions which are heaven sent for growing world class Pinot Noir fruit. The inhospitable climes deliver small berries to the vineyard, bursting with flavours, concentrated with intense varietal characters, endowed with stalky tannins and fruit laden acids
A CHARACTERFUL PINOT NOIR BORN OUT OF A VICTORY OVER ADVERSITY. "Rated #1 in Central Otago, this producer does it well and consistently, leading the way!" -Gourmet Traveller, "I made the acquaintance of Felton Road Pinot Noir from Central Otago – which completely blew my mind. They seemed more like Grand Cru Burgundies, the ones that are rich, the ones you have to be rich to buy. Tanzer concurs, awarding no wines higher scores than the Felton Road, imported by the same company that imports Domaine de la Romanee-Conti!" -Rosengarten Report
AS A KEY FIGURE IN THE PIONEERING WAVE OF MORNINGTON'S VIGNERONS, Garry Crittenden was instrumental in forging for the Peninsula the reputation as a distinguished producer of distinctive, regional wines. From the outset, Crittenden recognized the area's climatic suitability to Pinot Noir, and set about exploiting it through meticulous viticulture and sophisticated winemaking techniques. Crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir clones 114 and 115, MV6, D2V5 and D5V12, hand harvested from the Crittenden property at 25 Harrisons Rd Dromana
PINOT NOIR THRIVES IN MARLBOROUGH WHERE CLOUDY BAY HAS PLANTED THE BEST CLONES TO PRIME VINEYARD LOCATIONS WHICH YIELD THE FINEST FRUIT. Crop levels are carefully controlled to ensure the grapes have great concentration of flavour, enhanced by tried and true hands-off, minimalist winemaking practices. Cloudy Bay is always richly layered, pleasingly, floral, dry and fruit driven, medium bodied and finely structured. "A buyer for Macau casino commented recently that this pinot noir is stunning in value and taste!" -South China Morning Post
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