Tolpuddle Coal River Valley Pinot Noir 2024
Wine Details
- Red - Medium Bodied
- Fine wine
Australia- Mid Ruby
- Pinot Noir
- 10.125 Units
- Vegan
- 13.5% ABV
- 750 ml
- Vegetarian
- 31 December 2030
Flavour Profile
There’s huge praise for this fine, 98-point Pinot Noir. “This Grand Cru-level pinot noir will last for decades to come … brilliant” wrote wine expert James Suckling. Halliday Wine Companion is equally effusive, “Eveything plays at concert pitch … a cracking release that smells and tastes of a special place”.
All the grapes are handpicked from their cool, Coal Valley Tolpuddle vineyard, partly whole bunch (ie with stalks) and whole-berry fermented with gentle plunging and 10 months’ ageing in part new French oak barrels. All the methods employed on Burgundy’s finest climats.
This masterpiece is from Michael Hill-Smith MW and Martin Shaw’s 20-hectare Tolpuddle vineyard estate which they purchased from Tony Jordan in 2012. This was post “a spontaneous road trip, some timely advice from mates and a healthy dose of serendipity” as Michael was keen to admit. The vines were planted in 1988 and at 38 years old, are producing great fruit. Add in the excellent cold and dry conditions of Tasmania and their exceptional winemaking skills, and you can understand the demand for this wine. On allocation only, this is a wine to cellar if you can resist opening it. Intense fruit, freshness, sleek tannins and complexity ... it’s all there. Magnificent.
There’s huge praise for this fine, 98-point Pinot Noir. “This Grand Cru-level pinot noir will last for decades to come … brilliant” wrote wine expert James Suckling. Halliday Wine Companion is equally effusive, “Eveything plays at concert pitch … a cracking release that smells and tastes of a special place”.
All the grapes are handpicked from their cool, Coal Valley Tolpuddle vineyard, partly whole bunch (ie with stalks) and whole-berry fermented with gentle plunging and 10 months’ ageing in part new French oak barrels. All the methods employed on Burgundy’s finest climats.
This masterpiece is from Michael Hill-Smith MW and Martin Shaw’s 20-hectare Tolpuddle vineyard estate which they purchased from Tony Jordan in 2012. This was post “a spontaneous road trip, some timely advice from mates and a healthy dose of serendipity” as Michael was keen to admit. The vines were planted in 1988 and at 38 years old, are producing great fruit. Add in the excellent cold and dry conditions of Tasmania and their exceptional winemaking skills, and you can understand the demand for this wine. On allocation only, this is a wine to cellar if you can resist opening it. Intense fruit, freshness, sleek tannins and complexity ... it’s all there. Magnificent.
