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Mac Forbes Pinot Noir 2023 - Yarra Valley
Closure: Screw cap
Bottle size: 750ml
The Yarra Valley Pinot is a blend of fruit from Coldstream, Woori Yallock, Yarra Junction, Seville, Wesburn and Hoddles Creek vineyards. Our philosophy towards pinot is to look after the detail, keep it simple and respect the fruit. The onus is on fruit quality and and not on winemaking solutions or corrections. For us winemaking is an extension of the vineyard where we aim to capture the fruit expression and carry this through to bottle. We pick when the fruit is ripe but still crunchy to taste. The Yarra Valley Pinot is a blend of our declassified barrels from each of our single vineyard wines.
Our notes
This carries all the elegance and featherlight touch expected of a pinot made by Mac. If a thumping full-bodied pinot is your preference, that’s fine, but this is probably not your wine. It’s delicate and pretty with pinpoint varietal pinosity and gentle charm. The sweet cherry-infused high toned savoury fruit is flat out delicious, and the frisky acidity keeps everything neat and upbeat. This is an immensely enjoyable lighter style pinot here. Don’t forget it’s too hot to drink this at Australian Summer ‘room temperature’ so please take the edge of it with a light chill. At this price point, this is the business! Kudos to Mac. Cheers The Wine Experience Team
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Producers notes
Mac Forbes Yarra Valley: The Yarra Valley is our home and our winery is located in Healesville. The Yarra Valley is Victoria’s first wine growing district and its history of winemaking stretches back 160 years. While considered a cool climate, the Yarra Valley is incredibly diverse in soil type, rainfall (750mm-950mm) and elevation (50-1000m). Due to the large range of conditions, it is taking us some time to identify the unique character of each site and the grape variety which will best suit.
Conditions and therefore wine styles shift as you move through the Yarra. The wines of the warmer lower Yarra display more texture and openness than those of the Upper Yarra, which tend to display greater structure, perfume, and weight.
We have two lower Yarra sites (Gruyere, Coldstream) and four upper Yarra sites (Woori Yallock, Hoddles Creek, Yarra Junction and Wesburn). The Upper Yarra sites are protected from the harsh northerly winds and receive cooling influences from the Great Dividing Range. They have a higher rainfall and are higher in elevation.
The typical soil type of the Upper Yarra Valley is a highly friable red volcanic soil. What distinguishes our Upper Yarra Sites, with the exception of Hoddles Creek, is the fact that the soils are comprised of a grey loamy clay overlying siltstone. These grey soils result in wines with far greater weight, drive and nerve.
There remain a number of challenges to our region. What makes the Yarra Valley unique is still a question we struggle with. We want diversity in fruit expression in our wines and as a result we feel a need to move beyond wine making derived styles and give greater voice to each of our unique sites. We are committed to making wines of place.
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