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About This Wine
Straight into ‘stand back and admire’ territory. I’m tempted to call it a structural release because there’s certainly an emphasis there, though there’s also a healthy spread of fruit and spice flavour; this is a wine with a powerful presence, its lightness of colour at odds with the impact it achieves. Herb-age, spice-age, swings of sweetness and savouriness; it’s seriously impressive at every turn.
- 95points, Campbell Mattison, The WineFront.
Type | Red Wine |
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Varietal(s) | Pinot Noir |
Country | Australia |
Region | Yarra Valley |
Brand | Hoddles Creek Estate |
Vintage | 2018 |
Yarra Valley Wine
The Yarra Valley wine region is the most important area of wine production in Victoria today, and with its proximity to Melbourne, also the most visited in the state.
Yarra Valley is split into the Upper Yarra and the valley floor. The Upper Yarra is cooler in climate due to its elevation and coupled with younger, fertile, red soils produces most of the region’s notable varietals: Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The valley floor is warmer and has predominantly grey soils with pockets of granite and limestone.
Pinot noir has long been considered a notoriously difficult variety to grow. However, the cool climate and longer growing seasons of the Yarra Valley allow the fruit to develop full flavoured and ripe character.
Chardonnay in the past has long been associated with a deep oily, buttery style that experiences full malolactic fermentation and great amounts of oak. This style has since fallen out of favour and wine makers in the Yarra Valley have capitalized on this trend to produce leaner, acid driven Chardonnays that are closer in style to those from Burgundy.