2017 Holyman Pinot Noir

Handpicked and sorted, this 100% estate-grown fruit comes from vines planted in 1986. Some 60% of the fruit goes into the fermenter as whole bunches. 30% of the wine is aged in new French oak to bring complex smoky elements complementing the vibrant red berries and chalky tannins. No fining or filtration and minimal sulphur. 2017 will go down as one of the greatest vintages down here. The season was long and not too warm, everything seemed to happen at the right time. – Lou & Joe Holyman 

A strong vintage for Tasmanian Pinot Noir. Dark cherry, earth, mint, creamy clove spice oak. Only into medium bodied with shapely emery tannin and firm clean acidity, spicy cherry flavour, not a huge amount of flavour or density, it’s quite bony and lean, in fact. All structure over fruit weight, with a solid finish, tannin gripping firm and discreetly. It’s an intellectual style as at now, and pleasure and ease of drinking plays second fiddle to that. I suspect it’s a wine that will show well in, say, six years or so. – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front 2021