Hoddles Creek Estate 1er Pinot Noir 2020

Hoddles Creek Estate 1er Pinot Noir 2020Led by winemaking guru Franco D'Anna, the team at Hoddles Creek produce wonderful pinot noir year in, and year out that seriously overdeliver at the price point. The wines are made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley. The Hoddles Creek Estate 1er Pinot Noir is their flagship pinot noir. This wine is only released in vintages when Franco considers the quality to be outstanding. It's produced in small quantities, is of

It is full of coffee and chocolate notes

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In 1901 Chambers began replanting the vineyard using Phylloxera resistant rootstocks from America

cherry and plum-like flavours tightly knit with lightly smoky vanilla/chocolate oak and fine-grained tannins

and the newly released 2006 is every bit it's equal

What is it about Coonawarra that is so conducive to great Cabernet

this opens to a mild

It is renowned for its aromatic complexity

much sought after and as rare as hen's teeth

if at present slightly raw and awkward

Eventually I said: "Stuff it

texturally and structurally