Pinot Noir
2020
Supple and lithe, intense flavours of cherry, plum, sweet tea and blueberry. Bright mineral acidity frames a generous fruit core over layered with vibrant red berry and pomegranate lift. Plush, velvet tannins showcase a wine of immense charm and sophistication.
100% Pinot Noir
G.I: Tasmania
Alc: 13.5%
pH: 3.53
TA: 5.41 g/L
R.S: < 1 g/L
First place Trophy winner of the Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2021
Tasmania Regional Trophy winner of the Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2021
Liam McElhinney
Winner of the 2021 Australian Pinot Noir Challenge Trophy.
Parcels of Pinot Noir clones 777, 114 and D5V12 were fermented separately with small inclusions of whole berry and whole cluster. Matured for 11 months in 500L French oak puncheons (15% new) with minimal intervention prior to bottling.
This is for a case of six Pinot Noir. Price per bottle is AU$120.
$720 AUD
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It’s not Romanée-Conti, but it’s frighteningly good.
The Australian Magazine
18—02—2022
Stunning crimson-magenta colour sets the scene for a perfumed wine of exceptional quality, its ever-changing aromas and flavours encapsulated in an insistent heartbeat of purity.
The mouthfeel, length and balance of the red and black cherry fruit underpins a wine that is great now, spicy complexity around the corner.
Meet the ‘hairy-faced Kiwi’ whose debut pinot just took top honours
The Financial Review
26—11—2021
In his first vintage for Tasmanian Vintners, and a first release from a new wine business, Liam McElhinney blitzed the 2021 Australian Pinot Noir Challenge.
Liam McElhinney can’t quite believe it. “When you enter a wine you really love into a competition you hope it might win a gold medal,” says the New Zealand-born winemaker.
“But to come away with the top trophy at the Australian Pinot Noir Challenge – it’s a bit surreal. I’m dumbstruck.”
He’s not the only one. The judges were just as surprised when they found out the identities of the pinot noirs they’d tasted at the challenge. The top wine, the 2020 Ossa Pinot Noir, is the first release from a new wine business, made by McElhinney during his first vintage as chief winemaker at Tasmanian Vintners.
“I moved to Tassie from New Zealand just before vintage 2020 to take up the role,” says McElhinney. “And then COVID hit. Luckily, there was a phenomenal team at Tasmanian Vintners, who took this hairy-faced Kiwi and all the challenges of COVID restrictions in their stride and made it work.”
Tasmanian Vintners is a custom winemaking facility at Cambridge, outside Hobart. The business, formerly known as Winemaking Tasmania, was bought in 2019 by agricultural businessman Rod Roberts and Peter Fogarty of the West Australian-based Fogarty Wine Group, which owns a number of high-profile wineries across the country including Deep Woods in Margaret River, Lake’s Folly in the Hunter Valley and Dalwhinnie in the Pyrenees.