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Whitehaven pride themselves on the peerless quality of fruit, they take nothing but the pick of crop and work with Marlborough's most distinguished growers. A superior harvest of Pinot Noir is sourced from Michelle and Andy Peter's vineyard in Awatere Valley. Grapes are destemmed into small open top vats and plunged several times daily over the course of a week, racked to a high proportion of new French oak for malolactic and fifteen month's maturation. A full bodied style of exquisite balance and ample fruit, woo your Whitehaven with game and gourmandise.

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Deep ruby, brick red hues. Complex nose, array of cedar, bottled plum and cherry notes, the savouryness of oak spice and earth characters of freshly picked beetroot. Full bodied Pinot Noir, supported by a chamois of soft, ripe tannins, velvety textures, an opulence of fruit and persistence of flavours on the lengthy, supple, lasting finish.

Whole bunches and oak barrel ferments, the costly extravagance of three years tirage on sedimentery yeast lees, each bottle individually riddled by hand, disgorged and sent to cellar for the ultimate indulgence of extra age before release, Pamela is the zenith of the sparkling winemaker's art. Her luxurious effervescence exudes brioche, tarte tatin and French boulangere, her creamy textural mousse unravelling ribbons of rich yeasty autolysis, crème caramel and baked fruits. The prowess and perfection of true Methode Traditionnelle meets the sublime excellence of Adelaide Hills most outstanding harvest.

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A stellar achiever around the national wine show circuit, Wicks have claimed significant trophy triumphs for the excellence of their Pinot Noir. After a long family history of orchard farming and viticulture in the Adelaide Hills, priority was given to the establishment of choice clones Pinot Noir along the scenic slopes at Woodside. Treated to the traditional old world regimens of hand plunging and open ferment, its fine, soft tannins in support of sweet rhubarb and lifted cherry, pastoral savouryness and sasafras spice, all the way to a brightly lit, apple cranberry peacock's tail in full bloom.

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The wines of Wignall were met with resounding success from the first release, inaugural vintages saw amazing results, attracting conspicuous gold medal and trophy victories. Fruit driven and voluptuous to drink, Wignall have refined the style of their Albany Pinot Noir to be bliss for the most discerning palates. Vivacious aromatic fruit up front is solidly supported by velvetine tannins, dulcetly perfumed by the sweet, creamy French oak. An engaging nose of allsort and jube brings mouth filling flavours of fraise and framboise.

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Willow Creek has quickly gained a reputation as one of the leading Mornington wineries, producing ultra fine Pinot Noir. From the first multiple trophy winning 1994 edition it was clear that Willow Creek was an exceptional site yielding superlative fruit. Willow Creek's philosophy is uncompromising, that the best wines can only come from the most exacting standards of viticulture. Idyllically planted on good soils with perfect aspects, the vineyard has been continuously refined to achieve ripe harvests of choice Pinot Noir grapes with intense flavours.

$3699each $443DOZEN EACH DOZEN Originally a large mixed farm, the historic red brick homestead dates back to the 1880s. There were remnants of it's past life scattered all over the property indicating that over time it has served as an orchard, dairy and sheep farm. The Homestead Block was planted to Pinot Noir in the late 1980s. Grapes are harvested by hand, destemmed and crushed, vinified in small fermenters with gentle cap management to extract maximum colour and quality tannins from the skins and seeds. After a total of sixteen days on skins to build structure, the batches are pressed and transferred immediately to a combination of new and prior use French oak barrels for the completion of malolactic and eleven months maturation.

Medium garnet hue. Black cherry and chocolate with earthy/beetroot complexity and subtle French oak. Quite rich cherry fruit upfront, with more complex herb and earthy flavours and French oak flavours building on the length of the palate. The wine has a silky texture and good middle palate volume with very fine grained tannins giving grip to the finish.

Winstead is a place of Pinot passion, two magnificent blocks of vine separated by a few metres in distance and just four years of age. They each yield an extraordinary Pinot Noir, the younger Lot 16 however will vintage a little later in the season, an additional fortnight of ripening permits the berries to bloom with flavour and to sing in complete resonance. Completely destemmed into open vats, wild fermented and frequently plunged, followed by malolactic and a year in fine French oak. Powerful, generous, sound structure and self assuredness, an intensity that lingers.

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Deep red colour. Explosive perfume and glorious sweet fruit, nose of dark berries, bramble and spicy oak from a year in Saury French barriques. The palate is long and smooth, sweet dark cherry and evolving strawberry characters abound., structure, complexity, elegance and finesse, summer pudding fruit over a sheath of fine, tight tannins.

Lot 7 is Winstead's original block of Pinot Noir, planted high on a hill overlooking the panorama between Chauncy Vale and Bagdad Valley. A place of ample sunlight, its low fertile soils yield a uniquely intense wine of opaque fruit and the sleekest velvet tannins. Grapes are de stemmed into small half tonne open vats, cold soaked and wild fermented, laboriously hand plunged several times daily, basket pressed and treated to natural malolactic, followed by a year's maturation in a mix of new and seasoned oak. Seriously small batch, an extraordinary experience in Pinot Noir.

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Dark red colour, indigo at the rim. Dark fruits of the forest, spicy oak showing the influence of the new Suary French barriques. The palate is deep and rich, sweet dark cherry, raspberry, plum and spicy oak. Structured, in its solid weight of fruit and considerable length, Lot 7 resonates as it unravels layers of unblemished fruit, penetrating, imposing, statuesque and refined.

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Farmed by the same family since 1743, Wiston in Sussex is a sprawling agricultural estate of essential grains, barley and oats and wheat. Millenia of sheep grazing and beef herd have prepared the land for viticulture. A mere sixteen hectares of vine yield an exceptional range of effervescent wines, Chardonnay performs brilliantly here, Pinot Meunier and Noir of a quality only ever seen on the sacred escarpments along River Marne. A finely beaded bouquet of English orchard, hazelnuts and brioche, a refined and elegant, Chardonnay driven palate of edifying complexity and depth.

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