Colour
Brooding cherry red.
Nose
Instantly Pinot Noir; instantly Adelaide Hills.
Above (treble, higher notes): glazed cherry, panna cotta/brioche ‘sweetness’.
Below (bass, lower register): stewed rhubarb stalkiness and tell-tale Pinot cold lamb.
In harmony: Subtle cedary oak and a spicy propulsion of turmeric & ginger.
Palate
Round & lush. Full & forceful. To style.
Fruits abound – white mulberry, wild raspberry, red currant most apparent. Other fruits require further coaxing…
Texturally - a plush crème brûlée mid-palate and a rhubarb ‘tartness’ to finish.
Omnipresent oak all but soaked up, leaving only an unapologetic faint tannin slipstream.