Giant Steps Coal River Valley Pinot Noir 2023
$119.00 inc. GST
Accolades:
96/100 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
96/100 – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
96/100 – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
95/100 – Halliday Wine Companion
94/100 – James Suckling
“The 2023 Coal River Valley Pinot Noir leads with a concentrated, intense nose of wet garden rose, mulberry, pomegranate and timut peppercorn (in the way that timut pepper can be led by pink grapefruit, black tea, sage and resin and is delicate, fresh, singular). In the mouth, the wine is cooling, complex and concentrated. It is texturally shaped by pliable tannins, a little gritty and resinous yet spicy. Perhaps most importantly for this taster, the wine has achieved a “forest moss,” damp earth note, which is highly complexing.” – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
“Very deep, colour with a brilliant purple rim; as dark as Australian pinot noir gets. The bouquet is a mixture of fragrant herbs, sweet Turkish Delight, pot-pourri and underbrush, while the palate is medium-full-bodied and very deep, with impressive structure and a long follow-through. Dark cherry is deep within the core and takes its time to emerge. There’s a mass of fine, dry, powdery tannin, perfecty balanced with the concentrated flavour. An impressively powerful pinot noir which should have a rosy future.” – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
“Full ruby colour with purple glints at the rim. Full aromatic lift of raspberry, black cherry and vanilla beans. Palate is full of intense black and red berry fruits with hints of dried herbs, forest floor and vanilla adding layers and character. Tannins work quietly in the background in harmony with a fine acid line, lifting and driving the palate very long and finishing with a flurry of complexity and character.” – Stuart Knox, The Real Review
“From the Nocton vineyard in the Coal River Valley. Hand picked into a refrigerated container by 10.30am to make the boat to the mainland; 20% whole bunches, 35% new barriques. A deep crimson purple. With its aromas dark fruits, sarsaparilla, violets and bay leaf, this is the big personality in the Giant Step’s pinot range! Equally flamboyant on the palate, which is richly fruited and balanced with ripe, muscular tannins ensuring this will be long lived, too.” – Halliday Wine Companion
“Dark aromas of blackberries, dark cherries, wet bark and Asian spices. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and bright acidity, giving notes of Damson plums, mocha, wet bark, blueberry bush and cedar. Quite bold and dark-fruited with a high level of refinement. Drink or hold.” – James Suckling
Vintage Note: The 2022 season in Tasmania started cold and wet, with delayed budburst and flowering due to cold weather. Plant growth was slow due to cool conditions all the way up until just prior to flowering, when some well-timed heat spurred the vines along. Flowering was late, but consistent, going though in two weeks. Lots of shoot and crop thinning was done throughout the season, as well as some extensive leaf plucking due to the cool conditions. It was a very mild summer with only two days over 33 degrees Celsius experienced at the vineyard, which meant a long and slow ripening. The grapes were picked late for our vineyard, coming in on 22nd of April.
Winemaking Notes: Hand picked, straight into a refrigerated container parked on the vineyard. The fruit is then immediately driven to Devonport and sailed across Bass Strait so we receive it into the winery the following morning. Fruit was destemmed and cold soaked for three – four days in open oak vats and open stainless steel fermenters. The MV6 (from the top of the hill) was fermented as whole bunches in an oak fermenter. Both parcels were matured in French oak – 25% new, 75% older – for eight months in 225L barriques D&J, Vicard and Taransaud. Racked to blend, no fining, no filtration. Bottled by gravity.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Variety: Pinot Noir
Region: Coal River Valley, Tasmania, Australia
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