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Pinot Noir at Moncur
Bistro Moncur, Sydney
Tasted May 28, 2018 by chatters with 258 views
Introduction
the big Pinot tasting at Moncur Cellars. Rather well controlled today.
Flight 1 (71 notes)
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2017 Mayer Pinot Noir Granite
Sweet cherry, soft berry, pretty…juicy, slightly bitter finish with some gritty tannins but well balanced, fruit is present. good.
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2016 The Wanderer Pinot Noir
Earthy spicy dusty over muted berry fruit…tight slightly drying tannins, a little rhubarb and sour berry and this finishes very bitter. Nah
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2016 Gembrook Hill Pinot Noir
wild ferment, red berry, savoury spice, touch of earthy meatiness; complex nose…juicy, tangy red berry and savoury spice, slight alcohol warmth. Long. Rather nice.
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2017 Gembrook Hill Pinot Noir Village
wild ferment funkiness, touch of cedar and coffee and slightly meaty note….juicy with strawberry frruit and a general impression of watery wetness on the palate. Meh
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2015 Henschke Pinot Noir Giles Lenswood
Polished oak, vanilla especially backed by slight cherry, spice and stalky hints…the stalks are more evident on the palate, the fruit is sour as well and the juxtaposition of this and the new oak is not a happy place for my palate. Nah
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2012 Henschke Pinot Noir The Alan
Polished oak, marzipan, rich, ripe berries and plentiful spice…but again it's a touch sour on the palate with tight drying tannins that close things down. Nah.
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2014 De Bortoli Pinot Noir Phi
Toast, stalks, earthy spice over almost black berries with mineral notes….touch of coffee joins the black berries and some savoury spice. Drying chalky taninns. Hmm
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2016 De Bortoli Pinot Noir Riorret Lusatia Park Vineyard
Cream, vanilla, coffee, dusty red berries and stalks…juicy, fleshy and wet with talc textured taninns and muted red berry fruit. Hmm
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2016 Cooks Lot Pinot Noir
Pretty red cherry and oak, sweet spice, slight floral notes - pretty nose…and this translates well to the palate, pretty cherry fruit, slight softly textured but moderately drying taninns. Not massively complex but good none the less.
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2016 Rowlee Wines Pinot Noir Single Vineyard
jubey sour red lolly fruit, a little dust ash, cream and butter…sourly juicy red berries are knocked about by stalky drying tannins. Meh
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2016 Bird on a Wire Pinot Noir
dusty spiced red cherry…juicy tangy, a little bitter and warm, lightweight fruit in the mouth. Meh
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2015 Passing Clouds Pinot Noir The Fools on the Hill
stalky blackberry, savoury spice, slight earth, nice nose…juicy, fleshy with blackberry fruit, quite tight tannic grip but the whole works in nicely and all travel long. Good.
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2016 Passing Clouds Pinot Noir
Slight concentrated red berry and savoury spice….red berry, coffee, slightly drying tannic grip. Simple but also a little out of whack. Meh
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2014 Glaetzer Dixon Family Winemakers Pinot Noir Reveur
pretty cherry and berry fruit with almost a touch of stone fruit here…juicy, tangy, pretty fruits, softly approachable, very primary and very pleasant.
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2017 Lino Ramble Pinot Noir Red Rover
medium minus aromas of cedar, almond meal, cherry and a little stalkiness…wet, medium minus intensity flavours of maraschino cherry with a silky burr to the mid palate. Hmm.
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2016 Caledonia Australis Pinot Noir
softy berry and cherry and a little stalk note….sourly ashy, stalks are far more prevalent and overdone for me on the palate. Nah
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2016 Silent Way Pinot Noir Macedon Ranges
Clay, cherry, slight spice…more spicy on the palate with a little gritty tannins. No fruit! Nah.
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2016 Soumah Pinot Noir Single Vineyard Hexham Vineyard
spicy and earthy with slightly dusty raspberry fruit…juicy but a little tightly tannic for the fruit at this juncture. Hmm
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2017 Soumah Pinot Noir Upper Nygumby
pretty cherry, sweet spice and a touch of stalks…more spiced on the palate with the cherry fruit subservient. Tannins are nicely controlled. Okay
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2017 Soumah Pinot Noir d'Soumah
wet cherry, earthy spice, stalks…juicy, pleasantly fleshy, fruit carries with a little tannic burr on the mid palate. Balanced and quaffable. Nice.
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2016 Turning Heads Pinot Noir
earthy, strawberry, muted spice and very slight herbaceous notes…juicy but more dense on the palate, tannins close things down a bit too much for the fruit. Hmm
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2017 Byron & Harold Pinot Noir
overripe cherry, slightly peppery, tobacco leaf, spice…juicy fleshy, with cherry fruit but finishes spirituous notes. Nah
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2016 Lobethal Road Wines Pinot Noir
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tomato leaf and passata…drying tannins, sour tomato…really not very nice at all…calling this as flaw.
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2015 Lucinda Estate Pinot Noir
toasty red berries, cream, vanilla, meaty wild ferment and slight stalks…almost sweet fruit, juicy, fleshy, talc textured taninns, medium plenty length, balanced. Nice quaffer. Good.
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2016 Lucinda Estate Pinot Noir Collaborators
Ahh, sourly stalky, cranberry and red currant…more of the same on the palate. Not very nice.
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2017 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir Peninsula
Softly berried backed by sweet spice and slightly earthy notes…juicy, soft fruit is a little short and finishes a little bitter. Meh
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2015 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir Peninsula
slight polished cedar, slight stalks, confected fruit and a little dusty spice, cream, vanilla….juicy, fruits is present married to stalks and grippy tannins. Though still a bit pointy everything travels long. Kind of nice. Time?
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2014 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir The Paringa Single Vineyard
earthy, stalky…too many stalks in fact, red currant and cranberry are the most discernible fruit flavours on the nose…Mouth watering sharp acidity, stalky tannins and the merest hint of sour red fruit. <shrugs>
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2016 Ashton Hills Pinot Noir
stalky, earthy, red strawberry and slight wild ferment…wild strawberry, juicy, fleshy, fresh, slight stalks lend structure to the tannic grip. Okay
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2013 Bannockburn Pinot Noir
wet grass and herbs, slight stalks and meaty notes….stalky nutty, green, sour, awful.
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2015 Garagiste Pinot Noir Le Stagiaire
Sweet red berry, slight stalks, earthy spice…tightly tannic, a little over done, farty fruit. Meh
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2017 Jamsheed Pinot Noir Harem Series Pepé Le Pinot
stalks, savoury red berries tend to cherry, slight spice…slightly stalky on the palate but not overdone - wet and quaffable, refreshing red fruit. Nice.
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2015 Bress Pinot Noir Silver Chook
meaty, earthy stalky, coffee, red berries, cedar…juicy, slightly sharp, gritty tannins, fruit a little muted. Meh.
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2013 Bress Pinot Noir Gold Chook Unfiltered
earthy, stalky, cedar over red berried fruit…slight sour red berry, coffee, grippy tannins. Meh.
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2016 Mania Pinot Noir Tassie
Pretty, jubey cherry and berry fruit backed by sweet spice and very slight stalks. Juicy, fleshy, red fruit, fine boned tannins but a little warm on the finish. Hmm
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2016 Banks Road Pinot Noir Barrel Select Soho Road Vineyard
cherry and berry, slight wild ferment, slight stalks, very well balanced. Lovely.
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2016 Goodman Wines Pinot Noir Nikkal
perfumed, jubey berries, cedar and stalks…sweet berry fruit, spice and drying silky tannins. Time?
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2015 Marion's Vineyard Pinot Noir
Ashy stalks, sour red berries…the mouth is pretty much what you'd expect from that nose. No thanks.
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2016 Clyde Park Pinot Noir Block B2
slightly stalky, slightly aniseed, sour red berry fruit, slight stalky sour red jubey fruit.
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2015 Picardy Pinot Noir
Slight unripe red berries, sweet spice, cream, vanilla…Juicy, fleshy, tangy, red fruit, rather nice.
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Red
2015 Ross Hill Pinot Noir Pinnacle Series
Sour cherry, earthy, stalks…more oak on the palate quite drying tannins, fruit is riper cherry. Nicer in the mouth.
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2015 Seville Estate Pinot Noir Sewn
Wild ferment, slight stalks, pretty red berry…juicy, fleshy, red berry, soft tannins
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2015 Singlefile Estate Pinot Noir
Concentrated, ripe dark fruits, rich, some stalks as well but a bit of a big boy. nah.
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2017 Underground Winemakers Pinot Noir
stalks, cream, whole bunch, semi carbonic maceration cherry fruit…a little spritzy and more bitter on the palate. Hmm
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2015 Goodman Wines Pinot Noir
Wild ferment, slightly meaty notes over raspberry and strawberry…initially fruit and funky but ends a little sour and short. Meh.
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2013 Ocean Eight Pinot Noir Aylward
wild ferment, slight meaty, jubey red berry….juicy, spice, red berries, silky tannins. Nicely done.
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2012 Savaterre Pinot Noir
Slightly spirituous, toasty oak, ripe cherry, a little worked on the nose…and so it proves on the palate. It's all a bit too much but without much balance. Nah.
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2017 William Downie Pinot Noir Gippsland
Wood glue, strawberry, cedar, slight stalks…juicy tending to sour, a little berry beer for me, with drying tannic grip. Nah.
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2015 Brokenwood Pinot Noir Indigo Vineyard
Mud, earth, cream, vanilla, not much fruit, slightly reductive…sour toast, cedar. Nah
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2014 Dalrymple Vineyards Pinot Noir Single Site Coal River
Stalky over cedar and jubey berries, sweet spice…softly fruit, backed by bitter stalks and grippy, talc textured tannins. Hmm
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2014 Dalrymple Vineyards Pinot Noir Ouse
Stalky, yes, but polished vanilla, cream, cherry, nice nose…juicy, cherry fruit, wet chalky tannins do not detract, balanced, good.
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2016 Freycinet Vineyard Pinot Noir Louis
Pretty red berry; confected, strawberry with slight stalky herbaceousness…juicy but a little too tannic for the fruit and a little short.
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2016 Freycinet Vineyard Pinot Noir
Ripe fruit, slight stalks, a little oak, earthy…more stalky on palate, juicy fruit is mouth wateringly wet, tannins grippy. Hmm.
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2014 Kooyong Pinot Noir Estate
stalky, bacon fat, muted fruit, earth, cedar…mouth wateringly juicy, fleshy, lovely mouthfeel with mid palate burr and front of mouth grip, perhaps lacks a little fruit?
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2016 Kooyong Pinot Noir Massale
pretty, perfumed, very slight stalks, red berry, slight rhubarb…juicy, rhubarb and raspberry, drying talc textured tannins, balanced. Yum.
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2016 Barringwood Park Pinot Noir
toasted oak over muted cherry and berry and savoury spice…okay palate lends drying taninns over muted, juicy fruit, out of whack. Nah
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2015 Heirloom Vineyards Pinot Noir Adelaide Hills
wild ferment funkiness, red berry, slight stalks…juicy red berry, slight wild ferment funkiness, wet. Yes it's unchallenging but entirely quaffable.
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2016 Deviation Road Pinot Noir
Medium minus intensity aromas of red currants over raspberries with a little dusty oak backing it…raspberry initially then very bitter and drying tannins close things down. Nah.
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2016 Shadowfax Pinot Noir
Jubey red berry fruit, slightly spicy and earthy…Spicily rich red berry fruit with silky, slightly drying tannins, young but nice.
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2015 Onannon Pinot Noir Mornington Peninsula
farty wild ferment, savoury spice, red tending to black berry…juicy, fleshy, fruit a little muted, silky tannins. Okay
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2015 Yeringberg Pinot Noir
cherry, red berries and spice, slight cedar…juicy, easy, pleasant fruit. It's a little bitter on the finish with chalky tannic grip. Hmm
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2016 Wantirna Estate Pinot Noir Lily
Oak spice, strawberry, cream, sulphur…concentrated berry fruit, broad mid-palate, tight, cream, vanilla, young. Hmm
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2016 Thick as Thieves Pinot Noir Plump
Ooh, a little toilet water, cream soda, red berry and toast…juicy, tightly tannic. Muted red berries. Hmm.
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2017 Zilzie Pinot Noir Selection 23
Polished processed red cherry, jubey and a little residual sugar lends an off dry quality...a little odd.
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2015 Lethbridge Wines Pinot Noir
Stalks, soft red berries…juicy, fleshy, slightly stalks, red berries and muted spice. Okay.
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2017 Best's Great Western Pinot Meunier Pinot Noir Concongella Vineyard
smells juicy and fleshy with red berries, earthy and spice…similarly juicy with a little more breadth on the palate. Perhaps a little short but pleasant enough with a little white pepper spice on the finish.
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2017 Pooley Pinot Noir Butcher's Hill
Earthy, cherry, slight struck match, cedar…more of the same on the palate slightly drying tannins. Medium length. Meh
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2015 Apsley Gorge Vineyard Pinot Noir
Confected cherry, coffee drops, a certain herbaceousness, cream and vanilla…too much oak on the palate though which dominates proceedings.
Closing
Phew…thank heavens it was only Pinot! A few took my fancy here and it's tempting to arrange a little mixed case to look at after the dust has settled…