Giant Steps Coal River Valley Pinot Noir 2024
$119.00 $112.00 inc. GST
Accolades:
95+/100 – Campbell Mattinson
95/100 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
95/100 – James Suckling
96/100 – Huon Hooke, The Real Review (2023 vintage)
96/100 – Stuart Knox, The Real Review (2023 vintage)
“The 2024 Coal River Valley Pinot Noir is lighter than the 2023 tasted alongside, both in color and temperament. Here, there is levity, zip and pace within the wine, all ensconced within the concentrated fruit of Tasmania’s Coal River Valley. The acidity stands apart a little more than the 2023, but it cooperates harmoniously with the tannins. It’s a beautiful wine, silky and seamless, with brilliant length.” – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
“Giant Steps’ Coal River Valley Pinot Noir is from the Nocton vineyard, planted in 1999. I tasted this beside the Giant Steps Yarra Valley wines and my first words were: “Less floral, more fruit.” This brings the polish, the flavour, the seduction. It offers the freshest of red and black cherries with woodsmoke and cedar running through, a touch of mint maybe, semblances of undergrowth, gorgeous length, the tannin almost seeming to blossom itself. Beautiful wine. Complete.” – Campbell Mattinson
“Spicy and black-fruited, showing lifted, perfumed aromas of blackberry bush, five-spice, blood oranges, black cherries, plum skin and graphite. The palate is quite exotic, with finely tuned tannins and a bright line of acidity. Great intensity here with plenty of generosity. Delicious. Drink or hold.” – James Suckling
Vintage Note: The 2024 season in Tasmania started cold and wet building a solid foundation with strong, healthy and generous bunch numbers. Plant growth was slow due to the 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. 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 a few days reaching over 30 degrees Celsius experienced at the vineyard, which meant a long and slow ripening. The grapes were picked late for our vineyard, coming into the winery late April.
Winemaking Notes: Handpicked, straight into a refrigerated container parked on the vineyard. The fruit is then immediately driven to Devonport and sailed across Bass Strait to arrive at 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 rockiest soils at the top of the hill) was fermented as partial whole bunches in an oak fermenter. Both parcels were matured in French oak – 25% new, 75% seasoned – for eight months in 225L barriques predominately Taransaud and Dargaud & Jaeglé. Bottled by gravity. No fining. No filtration.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Variety: Pinot Noir
Region: Coal River Valley, Tasmania, Australia
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