2019 Lowestoft Estate La Maison Pinot Noir

Highly Rated
A structured and brooding Tassie Pinot Noir from vines planted in 1986. One for now or for the cellar.

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Description

This is an effortlessly elegant Pinot Noir with attitude and structure.

After being hand-picked from close-planted vines (planted in 1986) on the Lowestoft estate, the quality grapes mature in large-format French oak, seeing around 35% first use oak, for almost a full year.

It comes together as a brooding, structured Pinot Noir with spicy whole-bunch elements, intense flavour and dusty, earthy qualities. Will happily evolve in bottle with a little bit of cellar time, too.

Brooding dark cherry and plum aromas evolve in the glass, ultimately revealing a lifted, sweet perfume of redcurrant, raspberry, dried thyme and subtle oak spice.

Richly layered dark fruits provide a dense core with earthy undertones, Christmas cake and sweet tea driving vibrancy and length. A beautifully structured wine showing both power and finesse. Will reward cellaring.

Region: Derwent River Valley, TAS
Blend: Pinot Noir (100%)
ABV: 14%
Closure: 750ml
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95 Points - "Deep-ish red-purple, a bright youthful colour, the bouquet showing dominant whole-bunch stalky and earthy, dusty, root-vegetable aromas, while the wine is very intense and concentrated on the tongue, with quite a strong contribution from oak and impressive penetration, the finish lingering on and on. There's a touch of bitterness and astringency from the tannins but the wine is young and will reward a little cellar time." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

94 Points - "Juicy red cherry, autumnal and spicy, aniseed and orange peel, floral with it. Medium-bodied, supple, raspberry and cool blue fruit, fine graphite tannin, frisky acidity, cool clean lines, with a tea-like flavour and a fine dusty grab to tannin on the finish. Fresh, stylish, and very good drinking. Excellent Pinot." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

92 Points - "Hand-picked fruit from the Tasman Peninsula. Whole bunches included, matured 10 months in 35% new large-format French oak barrels. With frustratingly ambiguous front labels across its 3 pinots, this is Lowestoft's blue label, with La Maison noted on the back. More whole bunches is the most obvious defining feature here, with dried herbs, potpourri, Campari and sappy tannins asserting their dominance over cowering red fruits. It holds the kind of length and fine-boned structure that promise a long future, but will those bunches ever relinquish their grip?" - Tyson Stelzer (Halliday Wine Companion)

97 Points - "This is the initial release of La Maison from this single vineyard site near Hobart. Combines all the best elements of great pinot - elegance, precision, subtle finesse and a fine acidity. On the nose, plum and raspberry notes with darker cherry notes emerge. The palate is super intense with a deep, concentrated core. Yet it delivers with so much of that pinot finesse. Richly layered dark fruits provide a dense core with earthy undertones, Christmas cake and a tea-like character bring life and length (best drinking: Now to 2035)" - Ray Jordan (The West Australian)

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