Pinot Noir

PLATTER'S RED WINE OF THE YEAR 2012 - 5*

The Holy Grail of SA Wine for 2012? Picked out of 6,000 bottles this is something special.

If drinking now decant and let it stand for 2 hours before drinking. This wine will improve over the next 5 years.

Savoury cedar whiffs, with bright cherry & strawberry aromas powering through tealeaf ciagrbox spice. Plush tannins, sweet berry notes. Integrated 80% new French oak; natural ferment. Even more vibrant & detailed than 2009.

Burgundy inspired Pinot pioneer, perfumed cedary spiced nose, seductive black cherry flavours, classy sleek minerality - will age very well.

Intense yet translucent ruby-purple in colour. The nose has lifted scents of summer fruit, red cherry, strawberry, musky perfume and a distinct minerality. The palate is medium bodied with pure Pinot Noir fruit flavours of plum and red cherry supported by an ultra-fine, densely textured tannin structure which adds to the volume and vivacity of the wine.

Fragrant, bright Pinot with wonderful succulence and expressive fruitiness. The successful combination of its earthy, mineral & red berry characters make for a really lovely drinking Pinot, at a very reasonable price.