Bindi Original Vineyard Pinot Noir 2009
$80, Diam, ?% alc
Source: Sample
www.bindiwines.com.au
Another wine lauded heavily in the newly released 2011 SMH/Age Good Wine Guide, this is typically a very smart wine. This is no exception, though I’m not absolutely in love.
It’s very brightly coloured in the glass though, with a pink/purple brightness that had me thinking of rhubarb. Nose is all stewed plum alongside more fresh plum, with sweet red pure Pinot juice escaping. It’s a very proper, if still bound, nose, with plenty of pure fresh cranberry fruit. The palate is also still very bound, but for mine it’s a tad roasted and warm, finishing with dry but light tannins. I like the redcurrant generosity on the palate but it just doesn’t quite taste world class as yet. A little stewed. Love that mid palate sweetness though. Very good stuff, if just a little off the Bindi best. 17.8/92
5 Comments
I tasted this at the Langton's tasting and had similar thoughts. It was nice, but just not the same quality or appeal of for example the 08 Original, which I loved. 09 a tough vintage I would have thought
Interesting. Maybe a case of trying too hard after expectations have grown so much?
I'm just not sure what happened here. Vintage not quite as amazing as hoped?
Michael Dhillon from Bindi here.
Give this wine five years. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
Trying too hard would imply some changes in the vineyard or winery. Same fastidious work in the vines in 2009, missed the heat as we hadn't veraised, and the wine was not macerated more, worked any harder nor was any extra new oak added. Very unambitious winemaking really!
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Thanks Michael! Glad to have you on here.
I'm not really doubting the quality here, it just needs some time. That being said, what are your favourite vintages of recent years? There seems to be quite a bit of enthusiasm surrounding the 2010 vintage down there…