Port Phillip Estate Balnarring Pinot Noir 2018
$38.99
Very smart Pinot from Mornington. Dark savoury structure with tension and balance. 94 points, James Halliday.
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Description
Port Phillip Estate is a specialist Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir producer located on the Mornington Peninsula, one of Australia’s foremost cool-climate maritime wine regions. Meticulous sustainable viticulture and
sensitive minimalist winemaking produce site-expressive wines of elegance, complexity and structure. Port Phillip Estate wines are domain grown, vinified and bottled.
“We endeavour to grow the highest quality fruit that expresses the terroir of each vineyard. Our sustainable farming practices are driven by the belief that the health of our vineyard soils, and thus vines, underpin wine quality.
All grapes are hand pruned, shoot thinned and hand picked.” Winemaker Glen Hayley
“Since becoming chief winemaker at Port Phillip Estate a few years ago, Glen Hayley has taken the estate’s already good wines to new levels of quality and detail.” Max Allen
Notes from the winery:
“Now in its seventh year, this wine represents the exploration of our second site, located in Balnarring. This vineyard, planted to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, was acquired in 2007 but originally established in 1997. The original plantings comprise two distinct areas of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. A third area has been planted to Pinot Noir, exploiting the higher-density planting matrix found throughout the Pinot Noir growing regions of the Old World.
This wine was fermented in a combination of large-format wooden foudre and stainless-steel tanks. The ferment, with a portion of whole bunches, commenced spontaneously with ambient yeasts and lasted 18 days. Following fermentation, the wine was pressed and racked into French oak barriques (of which 20% were new) and underwent indigenous malolactic fermentation. The wine was racked only for bottling, with a total maturation period of 11 months. It was then bottled without fining and with minimal filtration.
The 2018 vintage … The red wines look poised and elegant with powerful aromatics and a great balance between tannin and acid.
Aromas of black cherry juice and fresh raspberry combine with a sappy, faintly herbal note. The palate delivers more black cherry, this time with boysenberry and cranberry, providing a softness to the mid-palate. The long and detailed palate is tied together with dusty, fine grained tannin. The wine shows good mid-term ageing potential.
Alcohol 13.0%”
94 points, James Halliday’s 2020 Australian Wine Companion “Bursting with life. Beetroot, red cherry, fresh mint and earth notes meet smoky oak and woodsy spice. It spreads wide with flavour as it shoot long and satisfying through the finish.”
93 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front “Port Phillip Estate doesn’t get it wrong very often. This 2018 release from the Balnarring sub-region of the Mornington Peninsula is another victory for the label. It’s tangy and tart with excellent complexity but most of all: drinkability. It slips down easily and well. Sweet beetroot, earth, red cherries and dry, woodsy spice notes. Plenty going on, long lines of flavour, disciplined tannin and a burst of something extra through the finish.”
RRP $47 Our price $38.99
Additional information
Producer | Port Phillip |
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Region or Country | Australia, Mornington Peninsula |
Variety | Pinot Noir |
Vintage | 2018 |
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