Bannockburn

Stuart Pinot Noir

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  Vintage 2011
  94 points www.winefront.com.au

...Ok so this is sappy and herbal and riddled with notes of crush leaf, and that isn’t everyone’s bag. That style proviso aside, it’s a belter of a wine. Nutty, powerful, compellingly tannic and insistently long. Power and personality. Maximum spice. It’s an arresting pinot noir. 

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  Vintage 2011
  93 points www.winecompanion.com.au

Produced from the oldest (planted ''76) vines, dry grown; the fermentation was 100% whole bunch, and the wine spent a year in 33% new barriques, and a further six months in four-year-old barriques. The colour is light and both the ethereal bouquet and palate are very spicy and stemmy, yet not green or bitter. It seems inevitable that the wine will be short-lived, but there is no history of a vintage such as this. Moreover, the move to screwcap will protect what is present much better than a cork.