Firstly I would like to qualify that I am a massive fan of Mornington Pinot - It has got to be right up there as one of my favourite Pinot producing regions in Australia & its a beautiful part of the world to boot. Its almost part of the extended Melbourne suburbs these days (lucky Melbournians).
Anyway, this Pinot serves to tick a lot of boxes - The packaging is simple and smart, the price is excellent ($20) and whats inside the bottle is genuinely Pinoty - with faintly gamey, red cherry fruits & a lick of spicy oak on the nose, backed by a smooth, cranberry and black cherry fruited palate, with just a bit of stemminess on the back palate - that serves to reinforce the fact that this is Pinot and not red cordial.
Admittedly its a little simple and the ripe fruit is a little one dimensional, but its unmistakeably varietal and has that particular soft red fruit fragrance that many of the more lighter styled Peninsula Pinots show (a style I very much enjoy).
Good stuff and great value. 18.1/20
2009/10 WCA Wine Journalism 'Young Gun; Wine Judge; Gourmet Traveller WINE and Breathe Hunter Valley magazine contributor; LattéLife & The Retiree columnist; National Liquor News tasting panellist and Chablis lover who fell into the liquor industry chiefly to buy cheap beer.
Rich and I were really impressed with Morinington Pinots and lament that, whilst we send the Nu Zild stuff your way, we can't get any of it here.
ReplyDeleteRetasted this today and it is more ripened and a little hot on the finish, almost to the point that its a little unbalanced. More like 17.5 rather than 18.1 (aren't points wankerish).
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