Port Phillip Quartier Pinot Noir 2021
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Port Phillip Estate is a specialist Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir producer located on the Mornington Peninsula, one of Australia’s foremost cool-climate maritime wine regions. Meticulous sustainable viticulture and
sensitive minimalist winemaking produce site-expressive wines of elegance, complexity and structure. Port Phillip Estate wines are domain grown, vinified and bottled.
“We endeavour to grow the highest quality fruit that expresses the terroir of each vineyard. Our sustainable farming practices are driven by the belief that the health of our vineyard soils, and thus vines, underpin wine quality.
All grapes are hand pruned, shoot thinned and hand picked.” Winemaker Glen Hayley
“Since becoming chief winemaker at Port Phillip Estate a few years ago, Glen Hayley has taken the estate’s already good wines to new levels of quality and detail.” Max Allen
Second label of Port Phillip Estate – notes from the winery: ” Vineyard Quartier means neighborhood in French and the Quartier varietals are a celebration of diverse terroirs on the Mornington Peninsula. The fruit for this wine was sourced from vineyards in Tuerong and Balnarring.
Mother nature was very kind … very favourable vintage in 2021.
The fruit was fermented in open vats. Fermentation occurred spontaneously with ambient yeasts and lasted 16 to 18 days. The wine underwent indigenous malolactic fermentation. The maturation period was 10 months in French oak barriques (8% new) and large format foudre. The wine was bottled without fining and with minimal filtration.
The nose opens with vibrant raspberry and strawberry notes and an added savoury complexity from the inclusion whole-bunches. The palate displays a bright and juicy texture, with more red fruit flavours. The dusty tannins drive a fine line through the palate that finishes with good depth and moreish appeal. 12.5% alc.
“I like the mix of tang and complexity. It’s meaty, smoky and herb-strewn, which works as an attractive complement to the overt cranberry, just-ripe strawberry and cherry-like fruit. There’s fragrance to this and good all-round liveliness. Some will find this too light; it’s of that ilk. It has good linger though and it drinks well, in an engaging way, from start to finish.” Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front.
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Producer | Port Phillip |
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Region or Country | Australia, Mornington Peninsula |
Variety | Pinot Noir |
Vintage | 2021 |
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