Curly Flat Pinot Noir 2015

“10% whole bunches fermented with wild annd cultured yeast, 30 days on skins, matured for 20 months in French oak (28% new). The bouquet is complex with gently spicy/forest floor/briar aromas that link with the wild strawberry, red cherry and pomegranate fruit flavours. It’s a deceptive wine, with more wire in its muscles that appears at first (or second) sight.”

95 points, James Halliday
Wine Companion

“Curly Flat Pinot Noir is almost always its own beast. As indeed are all the top-shelf players of the Macedon region. It’s the sternest, crunchiest, most brooding Curly Flat Pinot Noir I can recall. It’s routinely a wine of heft, and cellarworthinecs, but this release is a rock. Tannin, acid, fruit and oak all combine to powerful effect. It’s simultaneously slippery smooth, creamy in fact, and surly; it’s like an approaching cold front: beautiful, intense, intimidating. The colour is not strong but no matter. We have spice, alpine herbs, orange rind and stewed black cherries. We have acidity forming a clear stream. We have sets of tannin. This is a monty for the cellar.”

95 points, Campbell Mattinson
The Wine Front

“Transparent ruby. Heady violets on the nose. Fresh ferny fruit. Lots to chew on but the fruit is emphatic enough to handle it. Racy and crunchy but still youthful.”

17+ points, Jancis Robinson
jancisrobinson.com

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Curly Flat Pinot Noir represents our passion as winegrowers to faithfully capture the essence of our remarkable site coupled with the unique expression that is derived from each vintage.

Bouquet
Violets, black cherries and wild raspberry swirl. Scents of undergrowth and potpourri enhance complexity to form a rich, fragrant and savoury nose.

Palate
A luscious energetic palate awash with fine tannin coalesce into a scaffold of impressive structure. Kirsch characters intersect with cocoa and black pepper. Swirls of vanillin spice flourish to a lingering finish.

Cellaring
Approachable now but undoubtably one for the cellar. An easy 10, if not 15 years lay ahead.

Alcohol: 14.2%
Closure: Screw cap
Maturation: 20 months in 100% French oak (28% new).

How is this drinking now?
Red and black cherry fruit, more of the former being bedded down with autumnal savoury charm. Impressively silky mouthfeel as good structure and length assuredly chimes in. Drink 2020-2026.

Curly Flat Pinot Noir 2015

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