PICCADILLY VALLEY - ADELAIDE HILLS

94 points – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front :
”It’s one of those wines where you don’t quite know what to make of it on first taste. It’s a bit reductive, matchstick and cap gun, and after that it gets a whole lot more interesting. There’s sour cherry, liqurorice, amaro herbs, mint, spice and leaf litter. It’s kind of sappy and confronting, but also a wine of fine bones and juicy intrigue. It marches to its own beat, which I always like, and has a dusty peppery feel to tannin, and a raspberry pip finish of good length. It’s a bit of a madhouse, yet it’s kind of cool. It’ will be better with more time in bottle, though I kind of love its scratchy personality as at now.”

The Wine
The view from the Whisson Lake slope (Mt Carey) is expansive and impressive. The vines drink in a view of half the Adelaide Hills. Like the view, the wine has a lot going on. The more you look, the more you realise is there.
Deep dark and bright in the glass. Flinty and matchstick on the initial opening evolves into cherry ripe and anise on the nose.
The plate is plush with sour cherry notes that follow through to apricots and vanilla.  The finish is mouth filling and expansive.

Serve at 15-17C. Released June 2023.
Drink or cellar to 2034+

The Winemaking
Hand-made at CRFT Carey Gully winery.

100% Piccadilly Valley Pinot Noir, hand-picked on 7^th April 2022.

Cold soaked followed by wild fermentation in an open-top tank with 25% whole bunch. Pressed to barrel once dry for wild malolactic fermentation and maturation. Occasional battonage. Matured for 9 months in 100% French oak, 20% new. Bottled 9^th February 2023. Vegan friendly.

The Whisson Lake Vineyard
Owned and farmed by wife-and-husband duo Andrie and Mark Whisson.
Location:      Carey Gully, Kaurna + Peramangk Country (Adelaide Hills)
Elevation:     610 meters
Aspect:        North East facing
Planted:       1985
Clone:         D5V12
Map:           -34.967153, 138.751102
Soil:          Clay with schist and Gneiss

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