• 2021
  • Yarra Valley

Highbow Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir

$90
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  • Category Red, Medium Bodied.
  • Varietal Pinot Noir
  • Range Single Vineyard
  • Region Yarra Valley
  • Wine Style Textured & savoury
  • Food Pairing Roasted lamb or duck, beef stew (Bourguignon) and mushroom dishes.
  • Shipping Availability AUSTRALIA WIDE
Description


Highbow Hill Vineyard,Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.


Located near Dixon’s Creek in the Yarra Valley, Highbow Hill invites consumers into a clear understanding of what the Yarra Valley floor has to offer. The vineyard blocks are
nestled amongst the hill offering a variation in vineyard aspect and micro-climate to provide diversity and complexity in the fruit that is grown there. Grown on sandy loam over clay, there is concentration and plushness in the fruit.

This is a light and spicy Pinot that's showing some bottle age while retaining elegance. Aromas of cherry lozenge and flower stem have a herbal, slightly mealy underbelly. The palate is light weight and gently fruity, sculpted with fine, distinctively textured tannins. Drink up. — Christina Pickard

 

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  • Category Red, Medium Bodied.
  • Varietal Pinot Noir
  • Range Single Vineyard
  • Region Yarra Valley
  • Wine Style Textured & savoury
  • Food Pairing Roasted lamb or duck, beef stew (Bourguignon) and mushroom dishes.
  • Shipping Availability AUSTRALIA WIDE

ANALYSIS
Alcohol: 13.3% v/v

Serving temperature:
13 -17ºC

Cellar potential: 2034

AROMA & PALATE

This intensely perfumed wine draws you in with classic
lower Yarra Valley aromatics of crushed red berries and
sweet potpourri. The fleshy, powerful and detailed palate is vibrant and full of red currants, dark red cherry, blood orange and rhubarb with beautifully integrated oak and fine chewy tannin carrying the wine to a long and persistent finish.

SEASON

Highbow Hill Vineyard is 40 hectares planted on rolling hills just north of Yarra Glen township. The soils are sandy loam over clay and gravel over Yarra Valley mudstone. Most of the vines were planted in 1998. Handpicked Wines has invested heavily in the property, planting new blocks in 2015, 2016 and 2018, erecting new fencing to protect the fruit from kangaroos and other wildlife and generally upgrading viticultural practices to realise the best potential of this exceptional site.

CRAFTING & AGEING

All fruit was hand-harvested when flavour, acid and tannin were in perfect harmony. The fruit was hand-sorted allowing only the best bunches to be used in the
winemaking. Whole-berries were cold-soaked before
starting natural fermentation. Pressed off when tannin and concentration was at its 20% new French oak for 10 months. The structural and the Savoury nature of this wine shines through which is credit to the sustainable management of Highbow Hill Vineyard.

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