Personalised Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir 2024 13.2% 750ml

 

TASTING NOTES

 

PALATE

The Pinot Noir from Nocton vineyard have amazing density and texture, with powerful weight and concentration.

 

REGION NOTES

In our obsession with Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs from great Pinot growing areas around the world, we have gone as far south as you can go in this country. Despite the cool temperatures, the sunlight hours are long and intense, and we are intrigued by the depth of palate and colour that is possible from this landscape. While it is made with the Giant Steps gentle winemaking approach, the result is clearly a world apart in terroir.

 

WINEMAKERS COMMENTS

In our obsession with Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs from great Pinot growing areas around the world, we have gone as far south as you can go in this country. Despite the cool temperatures, the sunlight hours are long and intense, and we are intrigued by the depth of palate and colour that is possible from this landscape. While it is made with the Giant Steps gentle winemaking approach, the result is clearly a world apart in terroir.

 

CELLARING POTENTIAL

Now-8 years.

 

VINIFICATION

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.

 

VINTAGE NOTES

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.

 

ABOUT THIS PRODUCT

Country: Australia

Region: Yarra Valley

Vintage: 2024

Variety: Pinot Noir

alcohol volume: 13.2

closure: Screwcap

volume: 750

weight: 1.667kg

wine style: Red (Light Medium Bodied)

Reviews:

Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion - 96 Pts

From the Nocton vineyard, planted in 1999 in the Coal River Valley. A medium, bright ruby. With its aromas of red and black fruits, subtle sous bois and allspice, this is not as dense, in a good way, as the '23. The palate is medium bodied and gently plush, and the tannins are in total harmony with the fruit. Looks as much a Giant Steps wine as a Tassie pinot. I like this a lot. 96+

Huon Hooke, The Real Review - 96 Pts

Deep purple-red colour, a bold and youthful appearance. Dark cherry and liqueur cherry aromas galore; a massive, succulently sweet-fruited palate with super-impressive flavour and plushness, moving into a long palate with just enough tannin to give it structure and rein in that exuberant fruitiness. Stunning pinot noir.

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com - 95 Pts

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.

Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front - 95 Pts

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. 95+