Ninth Island Pinot Noir 2015
6.8
3.40
13.0
These trailblazers of Tasmanian Pinot Noir have the user friendly ethos at their core. This pinot is the perfect illustration of this. It’s bright, open and intentionally approachable in style. Vibrant scents of dark cherry, raspberry, sweet cranberry and fragrant rose petal are the first thing you encounter with this delectable wine. This rich, intense berry explosion is all nicely entwined with mocha coffee like tannins. Made for pure enjoyment this beautifully crafted pinot is perfect for drinking now and its food matches are endless. Try it with Asian and Mediterranean dishes with a slight sweetness, such as duck with plum sauce, rack of lamb, grilled salmon or barbecued Asian spiced octopus.
Lifted aroma’s of dark cherries, raspberries, sweet cranberries, and fragrant rose petal perfume. These aromas are distinctive to Ninth Island pinot noir, all nicely entwined on the finish with a faint background of mocha/coffee tannins and the under tones of pepper berry spice on the finish.
100% Pinot Noir
The grapes were harvested throughout the month of April and May from blocks located in the Tamar Valley and Pipers Brook wine regions of northern Tasmania. The vines are predominantly grown on Vertical Shoot Positioning (VSP) trellises, which helps to expose the ripening bunches to the sun, thus achieving full ripeness and well-balanced flavours with fine tannins.
A wine made for enjoyment with a beautiful bright lift of sweet berry flavours which stylishly support the palate. Concentrated and long, with the characteristic hallmark of early drinking pinot noir. At first the taste is supple round and delicate, but soon bursts with richness and power as the delicious pinot noir flesh and flavours fill your mouth. A wine that captures your palates attention, Sensual Tasmanian sweet summer berry fruits, velvety fine long textured mouth-feel, all finely balanced by satisfyingly integrated mocha/coffee like tannins with a long captivating finish.
Our aim with this rich and expressive pinot noir style is to bring all of the sensual delicate berry flavours and delights of pinot noir to a peak at an early stage of the wine’s life, while offering a lush round and fleshy textured full bodied palate. To achieve this, the grapes, once picked, are immediately de-stemmed and crushed before being fermented in a combination of Vinimatic, static and open vat ferments. The grape must is then inoculated and fermented at between 25-30°C for a period of 7 to 12 days before being pressed off into stainless steel vessels. The wine then completes full malolactic fermentation and is then bottled early under screw cap. This allows the wine to attain a style that is both intensely perfumed with distinctive soft velvety tannins and rich, fresh, vibrant fruit.
6.8
3.40
13.0