Ten Minutes by Tractor Coolart Rd Pinot Noir 2022
$99.00
The Coolart Road vineyard is the warmest site of the Ten Minutes By Tractor single vineyard wines, regularly ripening up to 4 weeks earlier than Judd and McCutcheon up in Main Ridge. Planted in 2000. 100% Pinot Noir. The combination of the warmer micro climate and deeper soils further down the hill gives a this wine it’s signature dark cherry fruit and exotic spice tones.
This Pinot Noir is always a careful selection from what they consider are the best blocks in the Coolart Road vineyard. The 2022 vintage utilises the finesse and poise from F block in the upper section of the Vineyard.
Handpicked fruit is sorted manually and individual parcels receive a 5-day cold soak before wild yeast fermentation. Both concrete and stainless steel are used. The wine is aged for 8 months in a range of oak vessels, 26% new (600L).
“This is a beauty. Pure of fruit, complex by nature and long through the finish, with more than a little X-factor along the way. Strawberry and red cherry fruit flavours come infused with sweet, autumnal leaf characters, almost into blond and/or dried tobacco. A touch of nutty, cedarwood-like oak doesn’t hurt matters, and indeed complements the fruit perfectly. As beautiful as this wine tastes, it’s the extra push through the finish that really makes you sit up and take notice. Outstanding release.” – 95 pts – Campbell Mattinson – The Wine Front
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