2020 Innocent Bystander Pinot Noir Yarra Valley

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 87.7 points

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  12/16/2023 - Mark Burnett wrote:

  Medium ruby in the glass fading to a pink rim.
  
  Intense aromas out of the glass beginning with fresh, ripe strawberry, cherry and raspberry. Some pleasant forest floor and black pepper notes follow along with cola nut, baking spices, rhubarb and tomato leaf. Stemmy and green under all of this indicate partial/whole cluster.
  
  Flavors follow the nose, with a long finish.
  
  Mouthfeel is dry, medium plus bodied, with medium tannin and medium plus acidity. Partial whole cluster gives this a lovely balance of fruit, spice, and herbacity. Well made.

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  10/27/2023 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Retail $20. Heavy bottle. Under screw cap. I tasted this as a part of a Zoom tasting for the wines of Victoria, Australia. I arrived late (long story), but I jumped right in with this light-in-the-glass even delicate Pinot. While my experience with Aussie wines is not all that extensive, this price range for me means jammy, extracted wines. Not here. At All. This is anyone's definition of "light Pinot" and this certainly verges on "delicate" with sour cherry, touches of spice, and a healthy amount of funk (and I love the funk). The palate is quite tart, with that funk and a touch of earth. While this is not the most complex Pinot I have tried, at this price point? Yeah, this is a keeper.
  
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  5/20/2022 - Ozric Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Nose: Earth, cherries, cold butter, clay.
  
  Palate: Relatively low acidity, but in balance with the fruit. Cherry, lingonberry. Tannins are there but very faint.
  
  Quite impressed by this, very good QPR.

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