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95
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Tasting Notes
100% Estate grown
Vine age: 36 years
0.6Ha block
Non irrigated vines
Low cropping
30% New French oak puncheons Remainder 1 - 2 year oak
From the Stoney Rise website:
"Joe and Lou Holyman are making some of Australia’s most exciting wines. Based on the Tamar in Tasmania, these are wines of modest alcohol that let the fruit flavours shine. They have build and age really well. We took the two new release 2022 Holyman wines for a test drive last night and they are brilliant. 2022 Holyman Pinot Noir: Joe Holyman has vintage experience at Domaine Dujac, and the nose is almost Dujac 'Moreyesque' with its blue fruits and florals spice. It is an approachable wines, with a rich and creamy core. There’s good underlying minerality and it is a wine of flesh and depth, finishing with precision and fanning out on the finish. It should age really well. There’s around 75% whole bunch here. "
Tasting Profile
- Light
- Full
- Low Tannin
- Tannic
- Sweet
- Dry
- Low Acidity
- High Acidity
Classification: Red
Variety: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2022
Bottle Size: 750ml (Bottle)
Country: Australia
Region: Tasmania, Tamar Valley
Alcohol %: 12.0%
Cellaring: 5-10 Years
Scores
95 / 100"Yeah, an Australian (well, Tasmanian) Pinot Noir weighing in at less than 12% alcohol. Strange days indeed. Wine was invented by the Romans. Very sappy and spicy, and yet, there is flavour here. Dried roses and violet, raspberry and cranberry crunch, a little spicy cinnamon oak, plenty of tea and ‘mineral’ stuff, and mint. It’s brisk, cherry and raspberry, with pippy acidity, firm dusty and slightly scratchy tannin, yet the perfume and energy here is kind of compelling. It takes a brave man to pick at this level of ripeness, but the wine carries it off. I’m thinking old school Chambolle, for the perfume and crisp energy, and the finish is bright and long. Rated : 94+ Points"
- Gary Walsh
