Name: Paringa Estate Pinot Noir 2021
SKU: 13223
Availability: InStock

Description

Founder and owner, Lindsay McCall, established the vineyard in 1985. He is lauded as one of the region’s handful of pioneers. He bought an old north-facing orchard and planted The Paringa vineyard. At an elevation of 140 meters it curls around the landscape like a vinous amphitheatre, sheltered from the harsh southwesterly winds. The deep, rich volcanic soils give power, flavour and structure to the wines. The vines are reaching their peak of maturity too, and this is a crucial factor in producing wine of the highest quality. In 2007, Paringa Estate was awarded the innaugral “Best Winery in Australia,” in the ‘James Halliday’s Wine Companion’ book – an astonishing achievement for school teacher come winemaker with no formal training in viticulture or winemaking.

The ‘Estate’ pinot noir comes from a selection of our best vineyard blocks, and its signature style is power and complexity. The long slow ripening season in 2021 produced high quality pinot noir, with lively natural acid, and firm tannins.

The nose is complex and perfumed, with aromas of red and dark cherries. The palate has a luscious core of dark fruit, silky tannins, and a long, balanced finish.

95 points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion “Not a shy and retiring wine, but by golly this is good. Full of forest floor and menthol aromas, flavours of dark cherries, rhubarb, chinotto and blood orange with lots of refreshing acidity but also plenty of tannins. Fuller bodied, firm and forceful yet the fruit is sweetly flavoured across the palate. There’s a lot going on in this wine.”

95 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front “I often think of Paringa Estate as making a bolder style of Pinot Noir, though that has changed over the past number of years. Now they have a vaguely Italianate (Etna v Verduno Pelaverga) quality, which of course I love. But don’t mind me.

Quite some perfume here, dried roses, aniseed and mint, spiced strawberry and red cherry. It’s medium-bodied (and only just), has plenty of red fruit, but also a pleasing blood orange and amaro tang, tannin is fine with a pumice stone feel, there’s a quiet succulence, but also a firm acid line, which carries on to a sappy and white peppery finish of excellent length. It’s bony and brisk, but absolutely delicious and individual. I like it a whole lot.”

RRP $81 Special Price $64.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine