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2018 Toolangi Estate Pauls Lane Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley, Victoria,
AUSTRALIA
$32. 99
Bottle
$395.88 Dozen
Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2020-2025)
ABV: 13.5%
Closure: Stelvin
Fifty percent whole bunch, matured in French oak, 20% new for 8 months. Semi translucent dark red core with black tinged edges and a light red hue. Top notes of violets and clove overlay red cherries and winter strawberries with subtle smoky cedar, forest floor and spicy herbs in the background. Delicious ripe cherry and strawberry fruits are underpinned by subtle clove, notions of spicy cedar and forest floor. Supple textural feel with silky tannins, an excellent power wave and long moreish aftertaste.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Destemmed to open fermenters, 50% whole bunches, 23 days on skins, 8 months in oak (20% new). It somehow manages to be complex and effortless at once. Sappy herbs, boysenberry and red cherry, fennel seeds and tobacco. There's smoky oak too, and associated svelte texture, but there's so much going on that it's hard to see where one thing starts and the other leaves off. Always a good sign. It's a wine to make pinot drinkers happy. Drink by 2026.
95 points
Campbell Mattinson – The Wine Front
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Other Reviews….
Destemmed to open fermenters, 50% whole bunches, 23 days on skins, 8 months in oak (20% new). It somehow manages to be complex and effortless at once. Sappy herbs, boysenberry and red cherry, fennel seeds and tobacco. There's smoky oak too, and associated svelte texture, but there's so much going on that it's hard to see where one thing starts and the other leaves off. Always a good sign. It's a wine to make pinot drinkers happy. Drink by 2026.
95 points
Campbell Mattinson – The Wine Front