Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2017

Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2017James Halliday Top 100 Wines of 2018 "This wine, as we all know at The Winefront, is a modern legend. One day, one fine day, far in the future, this label should win a medal for Services to Australian Pinot Noir." Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front Led by winemaking guru Franco D'Anna, the team at Hoddles Creek produce wonderful pinot noir year in, year out that seriously overdeliver at the price point. The wines are made from fruit grown on their

even though I had to pay more than $19

explosively concentrated presence of fruit that delivers an almost chardonnay-like fatness before culminating in an austere

There was partial malolactic fermentation and the barrels were regularly stirred

Reg was a lawyer and the vineyard was a hobby

but the palate makes you spring to attention

Vintage takes place in early April

"Supremely elegant wine with cool-ripe black fruits

earth and red berries putting their shoulder to it

Virginie is now the Sales Director

The wine has evolved in style over the last 30 years with the fruit gaining more prominence and the oak increasingly moving into the background

Unlike other varieties

We're in winning form here