2018 Bended Knee Pinot Noir
$ 45.00 AUD
Buy any 6 bottles from Bended Knee to meet their minimum order requirement.
Rigorously hand sorted, destemmed. 30% left as whole bunches• Fermentation using only indigenous yeasts (lag phase 5-6 days)• Oak: 225L Barriques, Francois Freres, Bossuet, Sirugue. 25% new oak• 100 cases.• Alcohol: 13.7%
Region - Ballarat
Type - Red
Year - 2018
Winery - Bended Knee
Grape - Pinot Noir
Volume - Standard - 750ml
About the wine
Tasting notes
Medium ruby with a pink hue and a nose of pretty musky pink florals, ripe red berries, orange zest, pomegranate, sweet beetroot and raspberry leaf tea. Sweet oak spice and gentle underbrush sit in the background.In the mouth it's smooth, focused and intensely flavoured with ripe red berries, cherry cola, kirsch and Rooibos tea. Gentle earthy notes and lovely oak spice follows the fruit, giving depth and complexity, while fine furry tannins lovingly grip and impart just the right amount of tension. This is one elegant and beautifully balanced Pinot!
Wine descriptors
Juicy and Fruity, Totally Smashable, Elegant and Fine, Minimal Intervention, Smooth and Seductive
Fruit aromas & flavour
Cherries, Dark Berries, Red Berries
Other aromas & flavour
Earth, Florals, Oak, Spices, Tannins, Vanilla
Food pairings
Pork
Cheese
Pizza
Fish
Red Meat
Pasta
BBQ
Vegetables
Poultry
Shellfish
Oysters
Spicy Foods
Cured Meats
Desserts
Expert review
“Chem free vineyard, close planted, Ballarat-ish area. If you like Latta/Eastern Peake, as examples, this is a good zone to be in for here. Sappy, savoury pinot noir, drives with dark cherry, mushroomy funk, dark chocolate and fennel-herbal lift. Lots of structure here with cool acidity washing through that dark fruit and spice character and a brace of lacy tannin finishing the wine in a light but firming chew. Serious feeling wine but not without pleasure. Drink slowly now, cellar for a decade. 93 Points. Drink : 2021 – 2030.”
Pinot Noir
Pinot noir (French: [pino nwaʁ]) is a red-wine grape variety whose name roughly translates to describe the tight clusters of a pine cone. Its home is France's Burgundy region, particularly Côte-d'Or. It is also planted in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, northern parts of Croatia, Czech Republic, England, the Republic of Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Hungary, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, New Zealand, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States, and Uruguay.
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