Port Phillip Estate ‘Balnarring’ Pinot Noir 2015

Specifications:

6 pack / Unit price per bottle: $35.00

Region: Mornington Peninsula 

Varieties: Pinot Noir 

Vintage: 2015

Nose: Heady mixture of black cherry and blackcurrant aromas along with some spicy whole-bunch-derived complexity

Palate: The palate opens with raspberry flavours and a juicy mid-palate that is well supported by tannin. The broad powerful finish is capped off with fine mineral intensity and balanced acid

Alcohol: 14.5%

Awards:

Halliday Winery Of The Year 2012

93 Points 
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion
A lacy almost ethereal pinot noir this is etched with a lively red fruited tang. Wild strawberries red cherry and rhubarb spring to mind. The tannins are chalky and firm yet serve to set the palate up for another sip rather than warning one that the wine is unapproachable. There is a tad of whole cluster nether nether too. Indeed as well as this will develop it is delicious now. A vanilla oak slice of oak merely accentuates the fruit guiding it along its way.

90 Points
Jeremy Oliver 
A pretty elegant young pinot whose fresh perfume of sweet cherries raspberries baked earth and fresh cedar/vanilla oak reveals suggestions of cinnamon clove and citrus oil. Fine and gentle it’s supple and restrained with a faintly tomatoey palate whose notes of cherries raspberries and faintly smoky meaty oak are backed by fine powdery tannins nuances of cola and dried herbs. Likely to flesh out in time.