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
The Port Phillip Estate ‘Red Hill’ vineyard is located on the Mornington Peninsula at Red Hill, on Eocene volcanic soils. Our wines are made from domain grown, handpicked grapes and aim to manifest terroir: the integration of our geology and soils with the macroclimate of our region, the mesoclimates of the various sites within our vineyard and the weather of the annual grape growing season. Our cultural operations in the vineyard and practices in the winery endeavour to articulate these unique characteristics diligently, respectfully and without artifice.
From the winemaker about the 2022 vintage: “While yields were significantly lower than average, fruit quality was excellent with intense flavour concentration and refined acidity.”
“This wine comprises fruit from five Pinot Noir blocks grown at our Red Hill vineyard. The oldest block was planted in 1987, with more planting in 1997, 2001, and 2007. These five blocks span 10.25 acres (5.28 ha) of the 23 acre (10 ha) vineyard and are grown in various directions in deep, sloping, red basalt soil, overlooking Western Port Bay. This results in each parcel having its own identity and growth characteristics.
“The wine opens with perfumed aromatics of red cherries, crushed strawberries and pomegranate, migrating to notes of green spice and hints of citrus rind. The refined palate displays a persistent length of raspberry and strawberry flavours. The silky tannins are fine and linear providing length and shape to the wine with the supporting acidity adding brightness and freshness. Elegant, intricate and pure, this wine is drinking well now but will reward with medium-term cellaring. 13.5% alc.”
93 points, Gary Walsh, The Wine Front “Red cherry, raspberry, flowering basil, spice, musk and chamomile. It’s svelte and cool, with strawberry and raspberry juiciness, emery board tannin, a smattering of mint and dried herb, with a clean long finish offering succulent red fruits and a cinch of amaro bitterness. Also has a quiet sort of ‘mineral’ character, and plenty of drinking appeal. Very good now, but no hurry.”
RRP $49 Our Special Price $35.99 when you buy 6 or more of this wine.
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