

95 POINT RATED HUON HOOKE THE REAL REVIEW & 95 POINT RATED CAMPBELL MATTINSON THE WINE FRONT
Vintage: | 2022 |
Source/Region: | Geelong, Victoria |
Grape Variety: | Pinot Noir |
Cellaring: | Drink now or cellar up to 2033 |
Bottle Top: | Stelvin |
Alcohol Content: | 13.50 |
Standard Drinks: | 8.00 |
Rating: | 95 |
As reflective of the cooler growing season in 2022, this is a lighter and brighter expression of Bannockburn Pinot Noir. Displaying pure red fruits, aromatic spices, subtle use of whole bunch and oak seasoning, and a moderate tannin finish.
The 2022 growing season started out with substantial winter and spring rains due to La Nina but dried out around Christmas and into the new year. A warm January and February led to a very consistent and well-paced ripening period, The Pinot Noir crop was made up of average yields, but small bunches of good concentration and intensity and was of very good quality over a two-week period between 15th March – 30th March.
Handpicked parcels of fruit from our different blocks were wild fermented separately with approximately 20% whole bunch overall including a portion of carbonic maceration. After pressing the wine was racked to a combination of hogsheads and puncheons of which 20% was new oak. The wine was left undisturbed for 10 months prior to blending and bottling.
95 Point Rated - Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front
"I really like where the Bannockburn wines are at right now. I guess that you’d call this light but its length and general insistence is right up there. Indeed over the course of 24 hours this just built and expanded in the most impressive of ways. It’s a minerally pinot noir, smoky and spicy, with red cherried flavour run through with herbs and twigs and undergrowth. In its infancy, now, it somehow manages to be quite remarkably complex; it will only add from here. Certainly it’s light but this is an outstanding pinot noir."
95 Point Rated - Huon Hooke The Real Review
"Medium-light colour with a tinge of purple, and there are lovely fivespice and dried herb aromas, some sousbois, some earthiness, all very complex. Toasty/smoky oak adds extra savouriness. The wine is rich and full in the mouth with a core of fruit sweetness and an enveloping web of fine, silky tannins. Lovely wine: it has a real deliciousness to it."
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