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2022 Lillydale Estate Reserve Pinot Noir
2022 Lillydale Estate Reserve Pinot Noir
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A single block wine, produced exclusively from the estate's original MV6 Pinot Noir vines planted on our highest, hillside block almost 50 years ago.
2022 was a mild and very low yielding season, with very few bunches and very small berries, delivering Pinot Noir wines with unusually high colour density, brooding berry flavours and an unusual, very firm and tannin structure.
Fruit, as always, was hand-harvested. Bunches were destemmed and fermented in a small open vat, with gentle twice daily pump-overs, matured on skins for 12 days before pressing to fine French oak barriques (30% new oak) for malolactic fermentation and ten months maturation, before blending and bottling in February 2023.
This is a very bold Yarra Valley Pinot Noir with great density, ripeness of flavour and firmness of tannin that will carry and evolve over coming years.
96 Points - 2024 Halliday Wine Companion
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