Stats
- Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
- Vineyard: Chapel Valley, Piccadilly
- Vine Age: 38-years-old
- Soil Type: Very sandy loam over 70 million year old shale rock
- Viticulture: Sustainable
- Fermentation: Native – open-top fermenters (varying percentages of whole bunch and time on skins - some carbonic)
- Skin Contact: 10-30 days
- Aging: 8 months in oak (10% new)
- Alcohol: 12.3%
- pH: 3.48
- Total Acidity: 5.9 g/L
- Total SO2: 41 ppm
- Total Production: 268 cases
Tasting Note
This is a delicate wine, with notes of strawberry and melon. A savory herb characteristic grow in the glass. The finish is lifted and long.
Press & Reviews
The Wine Front
92
"Chapel Valley Vineyard in Piccadilly Valley in Adelaide Hills. Set on sandier soils, on a hill, across a variety of aspects and clones. Screw capped now.
Big aroma of turned earth, flinty, smoky spice, dark cherry, hazelnut. The palate similarly set, stony, more of the flinty and smokiness, dark cherry, touches of fennel and mint too. The reductive elements complexing and savoury for now. The texture fleshy, but bright, flirty and overall delightful. Good drinking, quiet complexity."
- Mike Bennie
Big aroma of turned earth, flinty, smoky spice, dark cherry, hazelnut. The palate similarly set, stony, more of the flinty and smokiness, dark cherry, touches of fennel and mint too. The reductive elements complexing and savoury for now. The texture fleshy, but bright, flirty and overall delightful. Good drinking, quiet complexity."
- Mike Bennie