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Decades Pinot Noir 2024
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- TASTING NOTE: "A supple and spiced pinot noir from Tea Tree in the Coal River Valley, on black cracking clay over a calcareous Triassic sandstone. Dark cherry, wild strawberry and dark plum mesh seamlessly with underlying hints of amaro herbs, medina spice, Campari, sandalwood, pomegranate, raspberry coulis and turned earth and leaves. There's a beautiful flow and presence to this wine, the ripe fruit travelling with grace and fine detail. A flair of powdery, silty tannins provides support and a bright, minerally cadence drives the wine forward. The dance between bunchy nuance and fruit purity is bang on here as the wine finishes complex, long and enduring." 96 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday
- ABOUT THE WINE: "Our 2024 Pinot Noir has all the classic blue fruits that come from the Coal River Valley’s unique black clay soil. The fruit characters are dense, with a touch of Campari spice aroma, from the small whole bunch parcel. The region does fruit density exceptionally well, but we’ve tried to tease out a little perfume delicacy. The fruit was hand-picked in two parcels. The first parcel fermented entirely as whole bunches. The second was de-stemmed, then cold soaked for 5 days before a slow wild fermentation. Both parcels were pressed into small seasoned French oak for malolactic fermentation and left on lees for 9 months. The wine was bottled on 4th February 2025 and is limited to only 350 cartons." Decades
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Three decades after meeting at Roseworthy College, winemaker/consultant Steve Flamsteed (ex-Giant Steps) and brewer Brad Rogers, co-founder of the Byron Bay beer brand Stone & Wood, decided to make wine together. In ’22, they bought the old Woodlands vineyard (not to be confused with the producer of the same name) from viticulturist Paul Laing in Tea Tree in Southern Tasmania’s Coal River Valley and renamed it Decades after the Joy Division song (although it’s also a nod to the length of their friendship and the age of the original vines, which were planted in ‘92), and in ’23, made the first pinot noir and chardonnay. An additional 7ha of vines, mostly pinot noir, have been planted since, bringing the total area under vine to around 9.5ha (just 1.3ha of this is chardonnay), although only the most premium fruit will ever be used to make Decades wines. Halliday
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Coal River Valley, Tasmania
- VARIETAL: Pinot Noir
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Steve Flamsteed
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 13.5%
- SIZE: 750ml
