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Giant Steps Nocton Vineyard Pinot Noir 2018 - Tasmania
Alc: 14.0%
Closure: Screw cap
Bottle size: 750ml
Closure: Screw cap
Bottle size: 750ml
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Halliday Wine Companion
$67.50: as part of any six
$75.00: single bottle
$405.00: per case of 6
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Royal Queensland Wine Show 2019:
Best Pinot Noir of Show
Best Red Table Wine of Show
Best Single Vineyard red of Show
Grand Champion Wine of Show
In our obsession with Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs from great Pinot growing areas around the world, we have gone as far south (and as cold) as you can go in this country. Despite the cool temperatures, the sunlight hours are long and intense and we are intrigued by the depth of palate and colour that is possible from this landscape. While it is made with the Giant Steps gentle winemaking approach, the result is clearly a world apart in terroir.
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With Tasmania and Central Otago in the bag, surely it can’t be too long until there’s an Oregon or Pommard Giant Steps. That’s one small step for Flammo, one giant leap for mankind.
Plum jam, cherry, perfumed and floral, spice, smoke and clay. It’s juicy and bright, no shortage of flavour, yet keeps itself neat and spicy. Tannin is fine grained, tight and sweetly stalky, acidity like fresh raspberries, and a fresh and flavoursome finish of very good length. Beautifully made. Fun to drink.
Gary Walsh
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Halliday Wine Companion
From the Nocton vineyard in Coal River Valley. Hand picked by 10.30am, into a refrigerated container. The MV6 clone (60%) is whole bunches and the D5V12 clone is fully destemmed. All barriques, 20% new. A gorgeous, bright, crimson. Perfumed and seductive, this leaps out of the glass with an array of aromas including red and black fruits, peony, Asian spices, orange peel and a hint of fresh vanilla bean. More sweet fruited and textured on the mid palate compared to the more fine-boned and linear Yarra single-vineyard pinots. Concentrated but not heavy, with ripe, gently chewy and persistent tannins rounding out an impressive and still quite tightly wound wine, that will need another year or 2 to relax and really hit its straps. Halliday Wine Companion, 4 July, 2022
Philip Rich
Producers notes
Yarra Valley based vigneron, Phil Sexton lives with his family in the middle of their 32 hectare vineyard established on the high north face of the Warramate Ranges in the dress circle of the Yarra Valley.
Specialising in Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Giant Steps explore site, micro climatic and clonal differences between several specialized vineyards in the Yarra Valley including their own multi-clonal vineyard and the highly regarded Tarraford vineyard. Focused intently upon reflecting the individual and unique characteristics of each single vineyard, Giant Steps adopts a minimalist approach to winemaking including, whenever possible, vinification using indigenous yeasts and gravity flow transfers.
Wine & Spirits Magazine Top 100 Winery of the Year 2013, 2014 and 2015
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 5-Star Winery
18 Trophies and 48 Gold Medals at Major Wine Shows from 2006 - 2015
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