SKU: BANNPIN22
This “outstanding” release is drawn from Bannockburn’s entire spectrum of vineyards (planted in 1976, 1997 and 2007), including fruit from the iconic, close-planted blocks. All the sites have volcanic loam and dark clay over a limestone base and are planted to various clones, mainly MV6 with a smattering of the Dijon (or Bernard) clones 114, 115 and 777. Hand-picked fruit from each block fermented separately. Twenty per cent whole bunches and a small portion of carbonic was used. The wine was then pressed to a combination of hogsheads and puncheons (20% new) for a ten-month élevage before blending.
Grape Variety
Pinot NoirRegion
Geelong
Size
750ml
Wine Style
Red - bright, silky, light-bodied
Palate
Great fruit tannin and a deliciously supple mouthfeel. A touch of sweet-and-sour complexity on the finish offers a glimpse of things to come as it evolves, but it's absolutely singing already.
Vintage
2022
Food Pairing
Roast lamb and vegetables
”I guess you'd call this light, but its length and general insistence is right up there. Indeed, over the course of 24 hours this just built and expanded in the most impressive of ways. It's minerally pinot noir, smoky and spicy, with a red, cherried flavour run through with herbs and twigs and undergrowth. In its infancy, now, it somehow manages to be quite remarkably complex; it will only add from here. Certainly it's light but this is an outstanding pinot noir.”
– 95 - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Estimated delivery 1,722 PTS or $9.90
