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2010 Bindi Pinot Noir Original Vineyard
Pinot Noir: 750ml
$69.99
about this wine:
Bindi Block Five Pinot Noir was planted in 1992. The Block Five vineyard is about half of one hectare in size on a sheltered, north facing, and very quartz riddled site. It is a wonderful natural vineyard exposition. The wine is always darker in fruit expression and immediately more spicy and earthy that the Original Vineyard. It is less immediately perfumed and has more tannin and fruit power. The wines from this vineyard require more bottle ageing to develop the same suppleness and delicacy as the Original Vineyard but even in their youth these wines are more profound.
The wine spends 15-17 months in French barrels of which about 35% are new. This wine is never oak driven but can certainly benefit from a higher percentage of new oak without being dominated by sappy, smoky oak elements.
Production typically varies from 150-200 dozen per vintage.
points awarded:
AG 96 JH 95 WF 9496 points,
Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, December 2011
Quite a bold reddish-purple color, and the fruit is more red than dark cherry, spicy and herbal with some nettle and pepper notes. Profound flavor and presence, great drive, and lovely persistence with plenty of potential.-Huon Hooke
95 points,
James Halliday, May 2012
Slightly more purple colour, but shares the brightness of Block 5; delicious plum and black and red cherry flavours fill the mouth with a caress of sweetly rounded fruit; a very different proposition to Block 5, ready whenever the mood takes you, but will not disappoint as it ages.
94 points,
Wine Front, September 2011
Very pure, lifted aromatics - red cherry, faint sous bois, limestone, paprika and cardamon spice. Sweeter tones waft in the glass too. Palate is unctuous, luscious and cool with red cherry again, then some prickly spice, light tannin grip and a fresh wash of pomegranate acidity. Some cedar spice and faint pepper to finish. Fine yet rippling with youthful drinkability now, but with plenty of time to don the mortarboard.
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