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Decades Coal River Valley Pinot Noir 2024
BOTTLE:
Special Price
$72.00
Regular Price
$85.00
In stock
SKU
102296
HALF-DOZEN: $432.00 or $72.00 each
DOZEN: $864.00 or $72.00 each
DOZEN: $864.00 or $72.00 each
A supple and spiced pinot noir from Tea Tree in the Coal River Valley, on black cracking clay over a calcareous Triassic sandstone. Dark cherry, wild strawberry and dark plum mesh seamlessly with underlying hints of amaro herbs, medina spice, Campari, sandalwood, pomegranate, raspberry coulis and turned earth and leaves. There's a beautiful flow and presence to this wine, the ripe fruit travelling with grace and fine detail. A flair of powdery, silty tannins provides support and a bright, minerally cadence drives the wine forward. The dance between bunchy nuance and fruit purity is bang on here as the wine finishes complex, long and enduring. (96) DAVE BROOKES, Halliday Wine Companion
Deep, bold, promising purple colour, very young and intense. The aroma is full-on bold black cherry and dark plum, fruit driving it. There are some background notes of straw/hay and flake tobacco, the palate intense and bright, bold and full weighted, with plenty of neatly tailored tannins which are fine and subtle. The aftertaste is all bold blood-plum fruit and the wine cries out for time in the cellar: it is very primal and somewhat unready. This has potential and it would be a shame to open it under two years from now. (vineyard at Tea Tree, Coal River Valley. 40% whole-bunch, 15% new oak). (94) HUON HOOKE, The Real Review
This is a structural Pinot Noir with ageability written all over it. It’s surly right now, and backward, but long chains of minerally tannin and abundant undergrowth-y complexity suggest that it will age handsomely. Stewed cherries, loads of spice, boysenberry and earthen, ashen, forest floor characters make a distinctive impression. Smoky oak is present here but so well integrated that it presents as a textural element and little else. Tuck this away for a few years. Patience is this wine’s best friend. (93+) CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front
Deep, bold, promising purple colour, very young and intense. The aroma is full-on bold black cherry and dark plum, fruit driving it. There are some background notes of straw/hay and flake tobacco, the palate intense and bright, bold and full weighted, with plenty of neatly tailored tannins which are fine and subtle. The aftertaste is all bold blood-plum fruit and the wine cries out for time in the cellar: it is very primal and somewhat unready. This has potential and it would be a shame to open it under two years from now. (vineyard at Tea Tree, Coal River Valley. 40% whole-bunch, 15% new oak). (94) HUON HOOKE, The Real Review
This is a structural Pinot Noir with ageability written all over it. It’s surly right now, and backward, but long chains of minerally tannin and abundant undergrowth-y complexity suggest that it will age handsomely. Stewed cherries, loads of spice, boysenberry and earthen, ashen, forest floor characters make a distinctive impression. Smoky oak is present here but so well integrated that it presents as a textural element and little else. Tuck this away for a few years. Patience is this wine’s best friend. (93+) CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front