Scorpo Noirien Pinot Noir 2022

Description

Paul Scorpo has been quietly crafting beautiful wines in Mornington Peninsula alongside Australia’s top shelf cool climate winegrowers.

One of Paul Scorpo’s first jobs in life was in the cellar at Penfolds Barossa Valley winery. Since then the wheel has turned full circle through teaching politics, designing championship golf courses and running a successful landscape architecture business back to following his green thumb and planting a family vineyard on the Mornington Peninsula.

After extensive research of site and soil characteristics on the Peninsula, he settled on an old apple orchard at Merricks North with ancient clay soils, protection from the harsh cold winds coming off the southern ocean, a gentle slope and dual aspects, which combine to provide the site with ideal ripening conditions for a range of varieties. Paul and his family and their connection to the land are uncompromising in his quest to produce the area’s finest wines with closer plantings, more clonal selections. Vines are planted on north east slope (a brilliant sun trap) on red clay soils derived from Eocene volcanics dating back 40 million years. He has championed Pinot Gris which is also planted on the southwest slope towards Port Phillip Bay. Fine wine is in the Scorpo blood across generations from Sicily, Sardinia and Australia. Paul sources small parcels of fruit from other vineyards he manages on the peninsula to use in the Aubaine and Noirien wines. Scorpo Wines have depth, refinement and texture. They are recognised as a leader among the quality-focused producers of the Mornington Peninsula.

Noirien was one of the nicknames for Pinot Noir in Burgundy that goes back as far as 1325.

Scorpo Noirien Pinot Noir fruit is grown on the Merricks North vineyard. The Pinot Noir grapes (all MV6) were handpicked and given a three-day cold soak before natural-yeast fermentation with 10% whole clusters included. The wine was matured in concrete tanks and old oak barrels.

Vibrant cherry red with purple hues.  Bright berry fruit and cherry nose with flint, oak and spices. Dark cherries, mushroom and spices on the savoury palate with silky tannins.  A wine of wonderful structure and persistence. 14% alc.

95 points, Jane Faulkner for James Halliday Wine Companion “Scorpo produces some of the finest pinots on the peninsula, starting with this delicious Noirien. It’s in a happy place, offering perfectly juicy and ripe cherries and rhubarb dusted in Middle Eastern spices plus chinotto. Tangy pomegranate acidity teases the supple tannins to a lingering finish. Nice one.

RRP $35   Our Price $33.99

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