Me,
AnonymousCoward and
Alzoam managed to convince
Katy to try some Pinot Noir at last night's
Cellardoor.co TWE members night! She managed two, I think!
The pick for me on price v quality was the
Seppelt Drumborg Pinot Noir 2014. Great wine for the (Cellardoor.co) price. The
Coldstream Hills Amphitheatre 2013 was stunning, but the tiny vintage numbers made this wine way too expensive ($150 a bottle) for the experience.
These Pinots did inspire me to reach for the
Hardy's Eileen Hardy Pinot Noir 2013 I had been eyeing off for some time since picking it up in a $50 a bottle
Langton's Mystery Pack this January. This must be in the upper bracket for Aussie Pinots based on what I experienced.
My tasting notes concluded:
http://http://www.cellartracker.com/w?2258255
http://www.vivino.com/wines/11453666
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Fantastic Pinot to help burn another Midnight candle of work! This Pinot Noir is part of the Eileen Hardy series, created in homage to the great matriarch of the Hardy winemaking family. The fruit is sourced from old vines in the Yarra Valley (70%) and Coal River, Tasmania (30%), with 30/25% respectively whole bunched in the ferment. Halliday gave it a fine 96.
The nose and palate are beautiful as briary Summer bramble fruits, mulberries, blueberries, sweet vanilla bean pods, double cream, minerals and delicate spices delight the senses. The palate is light-medium-bodied, but with fine, smooth mid-palate weight, line and length. Very nice. A Wozza 95/100 (4.2/5.0) from me."
If you can afford the $70 outlay (and guessing, without looking, this can be found cheaper than its RRP), I'd say this is worth it.