Winemaker Notes
With fruit from vineyards in the Tamar Valley and Pipers River, this wine has pretty floral perfume and bright fruit with hints of herbs and oak complexity.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
A super standout, the intricate 2015 Handpicked Regional Selections Tasmania Pinot Noir brings it all out to the fore. This wine deftly combines red fruits, dried leaves, and zesty mineral onto the palate. Its slightly oak-accented finish pairs it well with a slow-roasted leg of lamb. (Tasted: September 27, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
An elegant, fresh expression of Pinot Noir, with wild strawberry, cherry and rhubarb flavors set against dried herb, loam and tobacco accents. The supple texture and harmonious finish are impressive. Drink now through 2023.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Directly south of the city of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula wine region, the cool-climate island of Tasmania has earned an honorable reputation as the country’s finest producer of Sparkling Wine. Naturally the region also excels in top quality still wines from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling, all distinguished because of a high natural acidity. Most of the Tasmania vineyards cluster around the eastern side of the island from north to south.