2022 Ghostgum Pinot Noir
2022 Ghostgum Pinot Noir
Single site wine from Main Ridge. Hand-picked and transported in a refridgerated truck to our winery in Healesville for processing after a night in the cool room.
The final wine is made up of four blocks - the 115 and 777 clones were picked (22nd March) and fermented together with 10% whole bunches in the bottom of the open pot. The D2V5 (30th March) was fermented as 100% whole bunches. The MV6 (2nd April) was completely destemmed. Average time on skins was 12 days.
The pressed wine was transferred to French oak hogsheads for 10 months barrel maturation before blending and bottling in March 2023. This wine is unfined and unfiltered.
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95 Points | Ray Jordan | Wine Pilot
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"Engaging aromas of sweet raspberry and edgier dark cherry with a slightly iron filings cut to the mushroomy characters. Palate is sublimely integrated with a smooth satiny feel of almost lamb’s wool-like qualities. Lovely wine."
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93 Points | Jane Faulkner | Halliday Wine Companion
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"It’s such an intriguing wine. An austere style, which is totally legit, full of sichuan pepper, poached rhubarb, a little ashy and stemmy, plus an array of cherry accents. There’s also a strong chinotto flavour with salted, dried Chinese plums. Mid-weighted, a fineness to the tannins, the palate awash with sweet-ish fruit, which offsets the charred radicchio/bitter finish. It will only garner more complexity with age."
- 94 Points | Ken Gargett | Wine Pilot
- "An appealing crimson red hue here, the nose displays some undergrowth notes with a little briar and earthiness. We have aromas of animal skins, cherries, florals, nutmeg, cinnamon and a tiny touch of oak. A wine of finesse and elegance, this is pristine with a seductive texture, silky tannins and a lingering finish. There is excellent length here. A cracking Pinot."
- 93 Points | Campbell Mattinson | The Wine Front
- "It’s firm and spicy, a little smoky, and definitely surly. It would be easy to pass this over, in its youth, but there’s something about this wine’s structure and depth that makes you think that it has something good in store for the future."