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Levantine Hill 'Colleen's Paddock' Pinot Noir 2017
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- TASTING NOTE: "Pleasing perfume, red fruits, kind of autumnal too with some porcini mushroom, rhubarb, and a little spice. It’s quite delicate with fine emery tannin, a subtle ‘mineral’ feel, again the savoury flavours coming through, slightly mulchy, but pleasing in a sort of old school Yarra Pinot way. Finish has some sour cherry, poached strawberry, and good length. It’s in a good spot, and drinks very well." 94 Points - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
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ABOUT THE WINE: Hand-picked across a fourteen-day window, all clones were small batch-fermented and aged separately. Fruit was hand-sorted and destemmed to multiple small open vats. Stalks were added back to a number of parcels for extra complexity with two designated small vats of 100% whole bunch. A mix of natural fermentation and inoculation via commercial varietally-enhancing yeast strains. Cuvaison length ranging from 2 to 3 weeks on skins. Fermenting vats were hand-plunged or pumped-over a maximum of once per day. Matured in a mix of new (17%) and used Burgundian casks for 9 months.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: This is the most ambitious project in the Yarra Valley since the establishment of Domaine Chandon a quarter of a century ago. It is the venture of Lebanese-born Elias (Eli) Jreissati and wife Colleen, Eli having amassed a fortune as a property developer, that business continuing apace. Levantine Hill has two vineyards, the larger (18ha) and older established by Soo Son in 1995, and purchased by Levantine Hill in 2010. The second vineyard fronts Hill Road with a little over 5ha of young vines. All the major varieties of the Yarra Valley are planted on one or other of the two vineyards, but the Soo Son vineyard is the more important from a business viewpoint. It has provided space for a cellar door, restaurant and winery designed by Fender Katsalidis, who created Hobart's avant garde, and technically awesomely challenging MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), and the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. The ground-hugging, futuristic buildings, their roof line reminiscent of a stealth bomber, are visible from the Maroondah Highway, and easily accessed via Hill Road. James Halliday
- COUNTRY: Australia
- REGION: Victoria, Yarra Valley
- VARIETAL: Pinot Noir
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Paul Bridgeman, Peter Shone
- CLOSURE: Screwcap
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml
