Eastern Peake Walsh Block Pinot Noir 2022

$62.00

If I had to drink one wine from the range today, this would be it. The fruit profile is a little sweeter and darker fruits of blackcurrant, blackberry and mulberry, more to the fore. Deep and rich, certainly the weightiest comparing the Griffins Rd and Intrinsic. A wine of terrific curve, shape and generosity, cut beautifully by melting acids. Fleshy mid palate, woollen, cuddly and satisfying; the tannins long and round. Perhaps you’d say this is an outlier in the range, if it weren’t of such purity, grace and effortlessness. Beautiful, gorgeous and sexy. Waters Wine Co

 

Grown by Long term friends Frank & Kerry Walsh, directly over the road on the same soil type as Eastern Peake weathered basalt on grey loam. First established with pinot noir in 1995 (MV6 clone) then a second 1 acre planting in 2003 of the famed Syrah. Another great crop from Frank, a high pressure growing season with great results, Cropping levels were good, a nice fruit set. this 5 acre block always produces year on year out. Harvested on the 4/4/22, All destemmed & fermented in open concrete, indigenous yeasts, pump overs once a day, basket pressed 16/04/2022, 12 months in barriques, sulphur added post malo in November, racked from barrels in late march 2023 no fining or filtering, bottled on 20/10/23. A small amount of sulphur post malo & pre bottling, unfined, unfiltered & untinkered. Winemaker’s Notes

 

 

This wine brings both silk and an engaging freshness to the table. It also brings cedar-sawdust characters, which play well with tangy red cherry and cranberry flavours. Tannin is fine-grained, but it’s the joyousness of this wine that gets you well and truly over the line. 94 points – Halliday Wine Companion

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