2020 Hurley Garamond Pinot Noir

Other Reviews....
If you’re expecting a structured and powerful Garamond, which is usually part of its makeup, 2020 didn’t deliver such a wine. Instead, this is an elegant, finer rendition, led by tangy acidity rather than its tannins, which are grainy yet defined. Lots of perfume from native mint, eucalyptus, baking spices and pepper, to flavours of blood orange, chinotto, black cherries and Campari. Drink by 2028.
95 Points
Jane Faulkner - James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion (January 2022)

Notes from producer....
The fruit was harvested by hand on 20 March 2020, fermented under the action of indigenous yeasts, basket pressed on 11 April 2020 and, after twenty months in barrel (one quarter new), bottled on 2 November 2021.
For me, a palate needs four things in balanced proportion a la the terroir of the vineyard concerned:   pure, well-defined and ripe aromas and flavours; linearity, precision and order (structure); a pleasing texture in the fine satin-silk range; and a clean, ever-lingering and preferably flaring finish.  This kind of palate combines smell, taste, feel, line and length in a carefully balanced frame. I find these qualities in this Garamond. It is bright ruby in colour.  The dreamy, other-worldly, red-rose of a nose has raspberries, currents, cherries and almonds with flowers and talc.  The medium-weight palate has pure and intense flavours of all of the above plus a texture of silk that comes from finely-grained tannins.  Racy acidity drives this energetic wine to an ultra-long, widely-flaring, contemplative coda. Alc/vol 13.1%.