2019 Living Roots Wine Co Pinot Noir

Textbook Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir; gamey, red fruited, and utterly delicious.

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A multi-clonal blend in this Adelaide Hills Pinot, with each parcel of fruit chosen for a distinct purpose. Colleen and Seb have crafted a great wine that reeks of regionality.

Fresh strawberry, bright cherry, ripe fruit, meatiness and a darker spectrum and savoury element, all combine here in a great expression of gestalt. Balance, precision, and a wine which is much more than the sum of its parts.

Adelaide Hills Pinot has a unique character in the world of Pinot’s, and this Living Roots wine is a shining example of that.

Pinot Noir destemmed and fermented wild with a high percentage of whole berries, resulting in aromatic cherry and orange characters balanced with earthiness, fresh acidity and spice. The grapes were sourced from Seb's uncle Bill's vineyard, as well as from his father Geoff's K1 vineyard.


92 Points - "Supple, succulent pinot noir, quite a lot of dark fruit character, sweet earth and autumn leaf characters, game meat, dark cherry-berry. Web of fine tannins mops things up, amaro-like acidity underlying. It's a savoury pinot noir, lots of charm, great drinkability." Mike Bennie (Wine Front)

93 Points - "Hand-picked fruit, destemmed for whole-berry ferment; clones MV6, 115 and 114 vinified separately, 10 days on skins, matured 10 months in French oak (10% new), then blended. Clear youthful hue; cherry blossom notes on the bouquet initially translate into an attractive medium-weight palate that gains traction and length; wild strawberries and fresh earth; open fermented in picking bins is not easy to extract enough fruit. This does the job." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)

Living Roots Wine Co

With roots in both the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, and South Australia, Living Roots is an exciting emerging project spanning two continents.

Founded by Seb Hardy (yes, one of those Hardys with over six generations of SA winemaking history), and his now wife Colleen (with her own American familial history in wine), they produce wines from both countries, working two vintages a year as they crisscross the Pacific Ocean.

Working with growers who share a similar philosophy, Living Roots produce an exciting range of wines from SA and NY.

Seb and Colleen Hardy Living Roots Wine Co

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