Arkaba Hotel

Heirloom Vineyards Pinot Noir 750mL

$27.99 each

Description

Heirloom Vineyards was conceived in vintage 2000, when a young winemaking student caught the eye of a silly old wine judge. A love story ensued inspired by two vows: To preserve the best of tradition, the old world of wine and our unique old vineyards and to champion the best clones of each variety planted in the most appropriate sites embracing the principals of organic and biodynamic farming. Seven long vintages of trial and error passed before Heirloom Vineyards could make a wine that was fine enough to pass on to future generations. That is this wine. This Heirloom Vineyards Pinot Noir was produced from our best Adelaide Hills Vineyard in Macclesfield whose clones and viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and winemaking. Hand tended vines, sorted bunch by bunch, naturally open fermented, basketpressed, 50% whole bunch, stored in 25% new French oak barriques for 9 months.

Place of origin

Australia

Tasting Notes

Autumnal purple-red with a bold, clear rim-edge. Lightly deeply coloured. Summer berries, fresh herbs - and harder, hardier herbs, too. Wild strawberry and that plant’s foliage; tarragon at summer solstice; fennel fronds at 5am. Forest floors and mushrooms and just - just - the hint of oak’s bouquet. A freshly polished mahogany stalking stick, but for use, not for pretence. Textural tannins start the conversation, and in a way that makes pinot noir proud - and a little martial. Fruit flavours flow then as if by rank: berry ripe, berry ready, berry proud, rhubarb picked, rhubarb stewed, plums fire at will… And this is a drying red wine that allows the sweet and savoury natures of its fruits to play with the more textural elements. A velvety quality eventually emerges with time in the glass, which seems at once welcoming but yet also sounds as a sentimental marker for the wine’s earlier proud sternness.

Product Details

Liquor Style Red
Varietal Pinot Noir
Alcohol By Volume 0.1%
Standard Drinks 7.8111
Closure Screw cap
Region South Australia
Bottled in Australia

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