Sailor Seeks Horse Pinot Noir 2023

There’s a lovely waft of souk-like spice as soon as you approach this year’s release. It suffuses gently through the perfectly formed red cherry, raspberry and red plum fruits. Hints of redcurrants, kombu, leaf litter, crushed stone, sea breeze, charcuterie and ozone. Airy and wonderfully detailed with gentle spicy red fruits, a cloud of powdery tannin and a super sapid sour-cherry acid line on the fade out. Delicious, filigreed drinking. 95 Points – Halliday Wine Companion

Intensely floral, as ever, with English summer red fruits, baking spices and darker hedge fruits. Rich, dense, authoritative, suave and sensual. Such a serious wine, in an effortless sense with a tarry, bitumen element, overlayed with roses. Very Nebbiolo like in some sense, yet the seduction of pinot noir is eternal. The elements dominating, a wonder, harmonised whole. Complex tannins; dry, yet silky, firm, but with a cashmere caress. Without a doubt, the best ever, with decades of pleasure ahead. Tasmanian Grand Cru. Norris at Waters Wine

Picked at the end of April and into May with 5% whole bunch and our more traditional Tasmanian clones of 8048 and 2051, this is a classically savoury Pinot, lots of layers with a touch more tannin and weight than in cooler years. Gilli and Paul Lipscombe, Sailor Seeks Horse

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