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75% off WineMarket Mystery Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2012 12pk $119 Delivered ($9.92/bt) - 94pts

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75% off WineMarket Mystery Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2012 12pk $119 Delivered ($9.92/bt) - 94pts
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tonester on 03/09/2014 - 23:57 winemarket.com.au (214 clicks)
Last edited 04/09/2014 - 01:55
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This mystery wine is the Heirloom Vineyards Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2012 mentioned earlier today and rated 94++ points by Philip White:

This top shelf brand is the precursor of Zar and Elena Brooks's Dandelion Vineyards: although I missed it then, Brooks advises me it existed before they also went into Dandelion with Carl Lindner. And top shelf it is: at once more sensual and supple as much as meaty and fleshy, it looks like a new benchmark for Adelaide Hills Pinot from this side of the glass. It smells like a peppery borscht, and then it smells like black Iberian ham, and then like dried fig, and then like dates, and then like chinotto … yet always like Pinot. It’s smooth and elegant, yet generously flavoured and formed; perhaps a little cheeky now, but soon to be purring like a great big black cat thing. Rather than unlock the confounding tease of a sensory puzzle that is Pinot at its best, this baby simply makes the whole thing more confusing in a splendidly delicious and stylish way. If it had come from Burgundy, you could add $100 to that price. Very impressive wine indeed.

URBANSPRING - thanks/credit to JohnnieB

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  • ripsnorta on 04/09/2014 - 10:59

    Thanks, I just ordered a dozen. I had been looking at this one for a while but had been put off by reviews on their website talking about bottle variation. At $119 I decided it is worth a punt.

  • su27km on 04/09/2014 - 11:28

    should be this one. i bought this before. and taste good in $10-$20 range wines.

    refer: http://heirloomvineyards.com.au/products/adelaide-hills-pino…

    Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2012
    $40.00
    $32.00 per bottle in a mixed dozen of red wines, plus free shipping and insurance to any address in Australia.

    This Heirloom Vineyards Pinot Noir was produced from our best Adelaide Hills Vineyard whose clones and viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and winemaking. Hand tended vines, sorted bunch-by-bunch, naturally open fermented, basket-pressed and stored in well seasoned first-use French oak barriques from bespoke coopers.

    The colour is of course, no indication of condition, being a Pinot Noir, but vibrant translucent ruby red with bright see through tinges. A striking and intriguing colour.

    The aroma is suggestive of ripening cherries, and like a perfume made from ripening summer pudding fruits; raspberries, boysenberries, red-currants and even a hint of mint and mossy forest floor but overall this wine redolent with ripening plums and black cherry smells and the merest hint of enticing cedar and spice. An extraordinary range of aromatics like waves crashing on a beach.

    The palate is initially intense sweet fruit of cherries and ripe raspberries, plums and then some black cherries.This is balanced by a tangy acidity, like a summer pudding with some fresh cream and spice from the French Oak and an almost chalk-like tannin structure. A real nod to Burgundy.

    An extraordinary Pinot Noir from the Adelaide Hills, from Heirloom clones of course, of whole bunches (stems and all) open fermented basket pressed, unfiltered, unfined and hand-bottled from a single site of free draining quartz laden north-facing vines that cannot be poached by describing their location on this note. We think this wine will cellar well but is so delicious now any argument for delayed gratification is almost academic.

    Please click here for a printable tasting note for this wine

    Reviews & Accolades

    Double Gold - China Wine & Spirits Awards
    Silver - International Wine & Spirit Competition
    94++ points - Phillip White

  • lostincanberra on 04/09/2014 - 12:45

    Don't need anymore wine. Except for super weirdly described Pinot. Damn! Thanks OP (& JohnnieB).

    … and Philip White just writes the best stuff on wine.

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