Curly Flat

Pinot Noir 2005

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  Vintage 2005
  94 poitns www.winefront.com.au

Curly Flat is a meticulously run vineyard which, interestingly, is currently being converted to biodynamics. All the wines – outside of vintage variation of course – have been getting steadily better and this 2005 is another very good release. When I tasted seven or eights months ago it was coiled drastically tight, but it’s come along a bit since then. It’s now a more relaxed wine and although it will cellar very well, it could easily be consumed now. Malty, sweet-scented oak, bright cherries, sweet acids and long, fine tannin. Delicacy and power; light feet but a lasting impression.

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  Vintage 2005
  94 poitns www.winecompanion.com.au

Dark brooding black cherry, dark plum and loads of spice; very concentrated on the palate, and the fruit holds on and opens up over an extraordinarily long time.