Pinotpalooza
Carriageworks, Redfern
Tasted Saturday, October 7, 2023 by chatters with 71 views
Introduction
Another year, another Pinotpalooza and another opportunity to see what is happening in Australian Pinot Noir
Flight 1 (65 Notes)
Closing
Interesting how the quality level and cost of the Pinot's had changed this year. Stylistically it felt like there was quite a lot of not very good fruit being asked to do a lot of hard work. Where the wine makers were less aspirational/interventional the wines seemed to work
2022 Ghost Rock Vineyard Pinot Noir La Filles Flawed
Australia, Tasmania
Wood glue tends to volatility acidity and dominates the nose. Palate same as nose; very sharp. FLAW
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2022 Ghost Rock Vineyard Pinot Noir Bonadale Flawed
Australia, Tasmania
Wood glue over red fruits, slightly jubey, as per la filles; not as bad but still FLAW
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2022 Ghost Rock Vineyard Pinot Noir Estate
Australia, Tasmania, Northern Tasmania
Wild ferment funkiness, slightly earthy, touch of mushrooms, jubey black and red fruits. Juicy, tangy, drying tannins are talc textured, slight non-intrusive alcohol warmth, red over black fruit
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2022 Ghost Rock Vineyard Pinot Noir Supernatural
Australia, Tasmania
whole bunch, carbonic maceration, meaty wild ferment. Sharp acidity, red fruits, textured burr, light weight, simple. Meh.
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2020 Riversdale Estate Pinot Noir Centaurus
Australia, Tasmania, Coal River
concentrated red fruit, sweet spice, meaty, savoury, slight wood glue. Juicy, tangy fruit persists, slightly dilute, silky tannins. Hmm
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2021 Riversdale Estate Pinot Noir
Australia, Tasmania, Coal River
Meaty, wild ferment, red fruit, slight sweet spice. Juicy, medium plus intensity acidity but the tannins are slightly too much for the fruit, time. Hmm
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2022 Riversdale Estate Pinot Noir Scorpio
Australia, Tasmania, Coal River
Medium minus intensity aromas of slightly dilute, gamey, red fruit, sweet spice. Jubey red fruit, slight rhubarb, raspberry, strawberry, slightly chalky minerality, textured burr, simple. Okay
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2015 Spring Vale Pinot Noir
Australia, Tasmania, Freycinet Coast
Sweet spice, red over black berry, slight cherry, earthy, meaty. Juicy, savoury, slightly jubey fruit, softly textured burr, savoury underpin. Long. Good.
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2021 Spring Vale Pinot Noir
Australia, Tasmania, Freycinet Coast
slight white pepper, red fruit, meaty wild ferment. Slight jubey with sweet spice. Hard, slightly bitter, red fruit, dry texture, out of whack. Meh.
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2018 Spring Vale Pinot Noir Family Selection
Australia, Tasmania, Freycinet Coast
Very slight wood glue, sense of concentration, red over black fruit, sweet spice. Juicy, mineral, tangy, red over black fruit, oaky tannins, sweet, big, long, good.
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2023 Spring Vale Pinot Noir Melrose
Australia, Tasmania, Freycinet Coast
Red berry fruit lozenge, slight sweet spice. On the palate red hued fruit lozenge, drying talc tannins, simple Hmm
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2021 Moondarra Pinot Noir Samba Side
Australia, Victoria, Gippsland
Wood glue, ashy whole bunch, slightly funky, red cherry fruit. Slightly porty on the palate, herbaceous, tightly textured. Meh.
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2018 Charteris Pinot Noir Hawkesbury Vineyard
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Bannockburn
Slightly savoury, cream, butter, baking spice, red berry fruit shows raspberry and rhubarb. Juicy, tangy, red fruit but not unripe, touch of bitterness on the finish but otherwise okay
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2022 Charteris Pinot Noir Central Otago
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Central Otago
Sweet spice, black and blue berry, slightly jubey, tiny whole bunch…sourly juicy, blue fruit, slightly bitter, meh.
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2020 Matahiwi Estate Pinot Noir Holly
New Zealand, North Island, Wairarapa
Concentrated, big and puts me in mind of the bullishness that I associate with Central Otago. Black fruits, sweet spice, slight wild ferment. Juicy tends to medium plus intensity acidity, dense and slightly woody tannins, black fruit doesn't quite carry beneath this. Time should help.
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2021 Matahiwi Estate Pinot Noir Holly South Series
New Zealand, North Island, Wairarapa
Earth, savoury, dense and smoky black fruits shows berries and plums. Sweet spice. Concentrated on the palate, dense, wood and grape tannins black fruits, very long, okay.
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2021 Matahiwi Estate Pinot Noir Reserve Selection
New Zealand, North Island, Wairarapa
Medium plus intensity black fruits, wood glue, slight whole bunch lends spice. Dense concentrated black fruits, grape over wood tannins, big, slightly worked and overwrought. Hmm.
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2019 Rippon Pinot Noir Emma's block
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Lake Wanaka
medium minus intensity aromas are meaty with wild ferment, blue and black fruits, baking spice. On the palate it has touch chewy tannins drying but silky textured. Not much fruit here. Time? It's already 4 years old. Meh
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2019 Rippon Pinot Noir Mature Vine
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Lake Wanaka
Spicy with almost a touch of alcohol prickle, very very slight wood glue notes, jubey red and black fruits. In the mouth it's sourly juicy with drying textured burr, fruit very much in the back seat. Nah.
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2012 Rippon Pinot Noir Mature Vine
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Lake Wanaka
Very slight Bretty farmyard notes, savoury, meaty, gamey, brambly fruit. Like the other Rippon Pinot's it's both sour and hard with foursquare grip, bitter, fruit still playing second fiddle. Meh
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2019 Rippon Pinot Noir Tinker's Field
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Lake Wanaka
Sweet spice, blackberry, touch of alcohol prickle. Hard, touch, lacks generosity. Tight tannins. Meh.
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2022 Tomich Wines Pinot Noir Icons of Woodside I777 Woodside Park Vineyards
Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills
Slight sweet spice, juicy red berry with a sour underpin. I was hoping that this would be all generous cherry and berry fruit…nah
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2023 Vinteloper Wines Pinot Noir Neonoir
Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills
Whole bunch, red hued fruits, juicy, more red hued fruits, touch of boiled sweets, talc textured tannic grip. Nice.
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2018 Vinteloper Wines Pinot Noir Odeon Lenswood
Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Lenswood
Wild ferment, wood glue, fruit tea, black and red berry, sweet spice. Sour, sharp, slightly powdery burr. Nah.
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2022 Vinteloper Wines Pinot Noir
Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills
slight whole bunch, red hued jubey fruit translates to sour cherry snakes on the palate with silky tannins, just not my bag.
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2022 Meadowbank Estate Pinot Noir
Australia, Tasmania
Whole bunch, sour red fruits, slightly jubey, sweet spice. More of the same on the palate, dilute. Nah.
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2020 Torch Bearer Pinot Noir Earthian Flawed
Australia, Tasmania, Coal River
Ooh, cork taint! Earthy, black fruit, sour fruit lozenge, plentiful tannins, FLAW
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2019 Torch Bearer Pinot Noir Ese
Australia, Tasmania, Coal River
Medium minus intensity aromas of red over blackberry, jubey, sweet spice. Juicy, fleshy, tannins at little high for the fruit though, latter persists. Hmm.
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2021 M&J Becker Pinot Noir Manchester Ridge Vineyard, Mendocino County
USA, California, North Coast, Mendocino Ridge
Medium minus intensity aromas of wood glue, fruit, sweet spice, slight ashy whole bunch, sarsaparilla, cherry Cola but dry, fresh, textured burr is slightly chalky drying integrated.
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2022 M&J Becker Pinot Noir Tumbarumba
Australia, New South Wales, Southern New South Wales, Tumbarumba
Funky, gamey, red berry and cherry. Juicy, red fruit proves slightly sour, talc textured tannins, slight alcohol warmth. Meh.
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2022 Fetherston Pinot Noir Fungi
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Smells dilute, red over black fruit, slightly plum, very slight toast and biscuit, earth. Sourly juicy, drying grip, red fruit. Meh.
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2022 High Garden Vineyard Pinot Noir
New Zealand, South Island, Otago, Gibbston
Black fruit; cherry, berry, sweet spice, slightly jubey. Juicy, fleshy, silky grip, fruit persists. Nice
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2022 Innocent Bystander
Australia, Victoria, North East, King Valley
Oyster shell/mineral, sour smelling. Jubey fruit lozenge, textured burr. Hmm.
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2021 Innocent Bystander Pinot Noir Yarra Valley
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Meaty wild ferment, slight wood glue, red over black fruit, concentrated. Juicy, tangy, red over black fruit, drying and slightly coarse tannic burr
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2020 Innocent Bystander Pinot Noir Mea Culpa
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Wild ferment, gamey, very slightly herbaceous and almost porty notes, sweet spice, black fruit is non-delineated. Juicy, medium plus intensity acidity, red over black fruit, Quite tart, adjusted acid? Meh.
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2022 Innocent Bystander Pinot Noir Yarra Valley
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Red over black fruits, sweet spice, slightly meaty underpin. Juicy, fleshy, light fruit, slight burr, super simple, in offensive. Okay
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2021 Kooyong Pinot Noir Estate
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Jubey red and black fruit shows cherry, sweet spice. Just the right side of sour, tannins a little too large for the fruit, slightly dilute. Hmm
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2019 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir Estate
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Medium minus intensity aromas of cream, dilute red fruit, ashy whole bunch. Fresh, slightly belchy red fruit, talc textured burr, simple. Okay.
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2020 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir Robinson Vineyard
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Jubey red over black fruit, savoury spice. Juicy, concentrated, slightly sour red and black fruits, textured burr is drying. Hmm. Time.
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2019 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir The Paringa Single Vineyard
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Plenty of oak spice, juicy, gamey red fruits, Juicy, slightly sour red fruits tight tannic grip. Meh.
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2022 Port Philip Estate Pinot Noir
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Red fruit; raspberry, slight rhubarb, sweet spice, oak, very slightly meaty. Sour, sharp, dilute, red fruit, drying powdery grip. Meh.
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2021 Red Hill Estate Pinot Noir Merricks Grove
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Whole bunch ashiness, savoury, earthy spice, red and black fruit. Sour with drying grip. Meh
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2022 Red Hill Estate Pinot Noir Cool Climate
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Jubey red fruit lozenge, touch of cola. Juicy, textured burr is soft, grippy, fruit plays second fiddle, simple. Okay.
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2020 Red Hill Estate Pinot Noir Single Vineyard
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Ripe stalks lends an almost nutty quality over red hued fruit and sweet spice. Stalky in the mouth, slightly sour and bitter with muted fruit and touch chewy grip. Time should help
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2022 Rob Dolan Pinot Noir Black Label
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Slight carbo crush, sweet spice, blackberry fruit and a touch of alcohol prickle. Juicy but also slightly sour - wild blackberry, coarse tannins, long. Time. Hmm
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2019 Rob Dolan Pinot Noir Signature Series
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
meaty, gamey, muted red fruit, slightly farty. Juicy, fleshy, slightly sour, slight non intrusive alcohol warmth, Long. Time but not for me.
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2022 Rob Dolan Pinot Noir True Colours
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Medium minus intensity aromas of slight dilute red and black fruit, touch of ethanol. Juicy, sour, dilute, tannins too much, bit clumsy. Nah.
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2021 Rob Dolan Pinot Noir White Label
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Meaty, savoury, black fruit especially cherry, sweet spice, Juicy, very slightly sour black fruits powdery texture, simple. Okay.
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2022 Save Our Souls Pinot Noir
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Wild ferment, red hued fruit, touch of olive, dilute. Juicy and sour, red fruit, non intrusive alcohol warmth. Silkily tannins. Nah.
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2020 Save Our Souls Pinot Noir Syme on Yarra
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Sweet spice, slightly dilute, red fruit, simple, ashy whole bunch, wood glue, red fruit, drying texture is a bit too much for the other stuff going on here. Not for me.
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2021 Save Our Souls Pinot Noir
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Meaty, gamey, wild ferment, black over red fruit, slight cherry, sweet spice. Juicy, tangy, black fruits, non intrusive alcohol warmth silky burr, Best of the three SOS wines here for me today.
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2022 Stonier Pinot Noir
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Jubey, red and black fruit, sweet spice, a sense of concentration, slightly hard and sour on the palate, grippy tannins are powdery, slight non intrusive alcohol warmth on the finish. A little out of whack
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2022 Stonier Pinot Noir Reserve
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Ashy whole bunch, jubey red fruit, sweet spice. Juicy, fleshy, whole bunch is integrated, talc textured tannins, balanced, nice.
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2021 Stonier Pinot Noir Windmill
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Mornington Peninsula
Meaty, earthy, wild ferment, black over red fruit, sweet spice. On the palate it's concentrated, dense, fruit over powdery tannins, bold, balanced, complete. Good.
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2021 Sutherland Estate Pinot Noir Daniel's Hill Vineyards
Australia, Victoria, Port Phillip, Yarra Valley
Medium minus intensity aromas of slightly dilute red fruit, clean, simple. In the mouth it is juicy, red fruits again but not sour, powdery tannins, simple. Nice
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2023 Xavier Goodridge Pinot Noir Pa Pa
Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Mt. Gambier
Whole bunch, jubey, red fruit. Sour and unpleasant. Not very nice.
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2022 Xavier Goodridge Pinot Noir Maffra
Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Mt. Gambier
Whole bunch, farty, wild ferment, sour red fruit. On the palate more of the same. Nope
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2021 Xavier Goodridge Pinot Noir Henty
Australia, South Australia, Limestone Coast, Mt. Gambier
Meaty, wild ferment, red fruit. Sour and unpleasant. Nah.
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2021 Lithostylis Pinot Noir The Obelisk
Australia, Victoria, Gippsland
Slightly jammy red over black fruit, sweet spice. Slightly sour red fruits, plenty of textured grip dries things out. Meh
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2023 Fleet Wines Pinot Noir Lichen
Australia, Victoria, Gippsland
whole bunch, red fruits; rhubarb, sweet and stalky spice. Juicy, fleshy, simple, dilute red fruit, short but okay.
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2022 Fleet Wines Chorus
Australia, Victoria, Gippsland
Red and black berry, slightly meaty notes, slightly gamey. Sour and quite tart on the palate, raspy, cats tongue burr. Nah.
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2022 Fleet Wines Pinot Noir Nostalgia
Australia, Victoria, Gippsland
Savoury, gamey, controlled whole bunch, sweet spice, black fruits; cherry; plums, nice nose. Juicy, wild black fruit; berries over plum with slight cherry, drying tannins are coarse flour textured, fruit persists…just. Balanced. Good.
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2021 Barringwood Pinot Noir Estate
Australia, Tasmania, Northern Tasmania
Perfumed, meaty, black fruit, sweet spice. Sour on the palate, grippy drying tannins close down the finish. Meh
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2021 Barringwood Park Pinot Noir Mill Block
Australia, Tasmania, Northern Tasmania
Black fruits, struck match, jubey sour black fruits, grippy tannins, Meh.
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2021 Barringwood Pinot Noir Grazier's
Australia, Tasmania, Northern Tasmania
Ashy whole bunch dominates the nose, black hued fruits, sweet spice, jubey. Sour black fruits on the palate, drying grip. Meh.
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