2022 Holyman Project X Pinot Noir

Highly Rated
An opulent and purely beautiful Pinot Noir from a special block in Stoney Rise's picturesque Tasmanian vineyard.

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If you like your Pinot with lots of whole-bunch characters, then the Holyman Project X is just the wine for you.

For reasons known only to the Stoney Rise team, the block from which they source the grapes for this wine is called 'Boris'. Only fully ripe bunches with well-lignified stalks (fully ripe with no greenness still present) are picked, with 100% whole bunch used in the fermentation, as well as 100% new oak. Blimey.

As expected, this is a big and powerful but also elegant Pinot, with its stalky characters sitting alongside blackberry, boysenberry, cherry, spice, and violets. It will need a lot more time to truly reveal itself, so that the grippy tannins can settle down, but it's already looking just lovely.

95 points
"Bright ruby with precise, wild-eyed aromas of raspberry, wild strawberry and red cherry, as well as spice, amaro herbs, dried meats, turned earth, leaf litter, struck flint and stone. Meaty and super stony and savoury with a long, complex draw on the finish and a beautiful expression of pure cherry and red, plummy fruits."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points
"100% whole bunch fermentation, 100% new oak. It’s unashamedly visceral, leaning boldly into pinot’s dark and broody elements. If you don’t love it, you’ll hate it. And that’s just fine with Joe."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

Project X always comes from a block we like to call Boris. It is all hand picked and our veteran pickers only select the perfect bunches with well-lignified stalks allowing us to make a wine 100% whole bunch, 100% new oak.

95 points - "Bright ruby with precise, wild-eyed aromas of raspberry, wild strawberry and red cherry, as well as spice, amaro herbs, dried meats, turned earth, leaf litter, struck flint and stone. Meaty and super stony and savoury with a long, complex draw on the finish and a beautiful expression of pure cherry and red, plummy fruits." - Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Joe Holyman produces some of the prettiest pinot in Tasmania. This isn’t one of them. But it is just as brilliant. His ‘Project X’ label is where his wilder winemaking urges run free, resulting in a strikingly sensual wine that walks a fine line between the sacred and the profane. 100% whole bunch fermentation, 100% new oak. It’s unashamedly visceral, leaning boldly into pinot’s dark and broody elements. If you don’t love it, you’ll hate it. And that’s just fine with Joe." - Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)

Stoney Rise

Stoney Rise is a small winery in Tasmania's Tamar Valley that has a huge reputation.

Winemaker Joe & Lou Holyman purchased the property in 2004, a picturesque site planted to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay planted in 1986.

Since then, they have developed a keen following, producing some of the most stunning Chardonnay and Pinot Noir on the Apple Isle. Interestingly, they also have a little Gruner Veltliner and Trousseau in the ground adding a little colour to their range.

These wines fly off the shelves. And no wonder, they are right at the top of the pile in terms of quality in Tasmania at the moment, with demand far outstripping their small production each year.

Lou and Joe, and their new cellar door - Tamar Valley, Tasmania Stoney Rise

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