Tasting Profile
September 2021
Kooyong Estate Pinot Noir comprises fruit from our Meres, Haven and Ferrous blocks. It offers an overall expression of the Kooyong vineyard, with parcels of fruit from various soils and mesoclimates blended to create the Estate label. Each year the same parcels are consistently chosen, giving this wine an underlying likeness across vintages.
The fruit was fermented in a combination of large-format oak foudre, large-format concrete tanks and stainless-steel tanks. Fermentation commenced spontaneously with ambient yeasts, included a proportion of whole bunches and lasted 16 to 18 days. Following fermentation, the wine was pressed and racked into French oak barriques (20% of which were new) and puncheons and underwent indigenous malolactic fermentation. The maturation period was 12 months. The wine was bottled without fining and with minimal filtration.
Displaying bright fruit notes more in the red spectrum, the nose opens with raspberry and strawberry, complemented by orange peel and spice notes of cassia and clove. Raspberry appears again on the palate, together with darker boysenberry flavours. Supple in the mid-palate, red florals and dark spices fill the mouth. It is driven by ultra-fine tannins that lead to a cranberry acid finish. This wine will greatly reward mid-term cellaring.
12.5%
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Reviews
The WineFront, December 2021
Gary Walsh
Strawberry, and strawberry jam, a slightly minty and gum litter perfume, light cedar oak, rosehip tea and spice. It’s light, slightly smoky, crisp in acidity, with a feathering of tannin, a bit sappy/twiggy/autumnal to taste, with redcurrant and cranberry on a frisky finish of solid length, a little emery tannin grip as it goes. Quite dry, a nice wine.
91+ points
The Real Review, January 2022
Aaron Brasher
Aromatic, lifted, wild strawberry, sap, spice, pot-pourri, briary and woodsy—really evocative. Elegant, long, textured and layered. Red cherry, redcurrant, a touch of sap and cola. The acid has brightness and the tannins are supple and shapely.
92 points
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The Vintage
The Vineyard
The Kooyong vineyard is located on the Mornington Peninsula at Tuerong, on Miocene sedimentary soils. Our wines are made from domain grown, handpicked grapes and aim to manifest terroir: the integration of our geology and soils with the macroclimate of our region, the mesoclimates of the various sites within our vineyard and the weather of the annual grape growing season. Our cultural operations in the vineyard and practices in the winery endeavour to articulate these unique characteristics diligently, respectfully and without artifice.