Pinot Noir Estate 2019 - Bass Phillip

Producer	Bass Phillip
Appellation	Gippsland
Region	Victoria
Country	Australia
Vintage	2019
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir

 From the original Estate vineyard; 8,500 vines/hectare; specific plot cropping at approx. one tonne/acre, often blended with the best fruit from our Leongatha Vineyard. Wine with attractive, rich fruits in the mid-palate, with the strength to improve up to ten years in the cellar. Bottled without fining or filtration.

The exquisitely balanced single vineyard Estate Pinot Noir draws fruit from the extremely low cropping, closely spaced north easterly facing, four hectare un-irrigated vineyard. The wine is vinified in an open stainless steel fermenter with regular plunging to extract colour and flavour. After fermentation the wine is gravity racked into a combination of new (60%) and old French Alliers oak for a maturation period of around 15 to 18 months.

First sniff reveals a bowl of bright, fresh red berry fruit aromas, with delightful purity. With further time in the glass, some deeper vinous characters appear. A seamless poised palate lined with refined tannins on a silky textural mid palate finishing with fresh and clean flavours.

 

 

Grapes from biodynamic farming, natural yeast and low added sulfites.