Only 130 dozen of the 2018 Western and Central Pinot Noirs were produced - they're not going to be available for very long. I am blessed that many people have been buying Curly Flat wine for a long time. I want to get these wines out to many of our loyal supporters. This month, I will be contacting our direct buyers to offer these wines (you’re in the first batch of offers!) If any wine remains, it will be offered more widely in the May newsletter. Western and Central Pinots will not be available on line, nor to either restaurants or retailers.
Western and Central Pinots cannot be purchased individually. The point of bottling Western and Central is for the comparison and they are therefore only offered in sets. You are welcome to take a set with 6 bottles of each, 4 bottles of each or 2 bottles of each. Each wine is $53 per bottle and the 10% discount (normally for orders of a dozen or more) has been applied to all sets. There are no purchase limits on the amount of 2018 Curly Flat Pinot (regular).
Set | Bottles | Price ω 10% disc | 6 of each | 18 | $858.60 | 4 of each | 12 | $572.40 | 2 of each | 6 | $286.20 |
If you’d like to purchase a set of the 2018 Pinots, please reply to this email - it’s the only way to get these wines. I won’t be offended if you would rather pass on this one.
Warm regards
Recent Reviews
2018 Curly Flat Pinot Noir
Dried rose perfume in with some fresh mint, deep raspberry flavour, a little almond and vanilla, plus some spice. It’s ripe, but not overly so, with cool acidity, a dusting of graphite tannin, and a long biscuity finish. It’s generous in style, but keeps itself trim. I’m particularly tickled by the quality of tannin here. Excellent. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front 95 Points Drink : 2020 - 2028+
There’s whole bunch and skin contact at play here as well as wild yeasts but, really, it all adds up to a delightfully complex wine which is important to remember because this is a bare youngster. Approachable now with the fragrance of crushed red berries, musk, potpourri. The wine glides across the tongue leaving an impression that is both sweet-fruited, studded with lively red cherries, and don’t you just love that touch of pepper to close. Cool climate pinot to the very end.
Jeni Port , WinePilot 95 Points Drink: 2020 to 2028
2018 Curly Flat Western Pinot Noir
The Western block is from 1997 and 1998 plantings, has no new oak, and is made from 114 and 115 clones. It’s the latest ripening block, and typically produces finer, more aromatic wines. There’s a strong family resemblance to the Curly Flat 2018, though this wine is a little tighter and finer, with more pepper and spice, less oak, and perhaps less tannin. It’s red fruited, clean and clear, a bit meaty, light dusty tannin, a ‘minerally’ finish of precision and length. Nice one. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front 95 Points Drink : 2020 – 2030
2018 Curly Flat Central Pinot Noir
The Central bottling is from the oldest vines on the property, planted in 1992. It’s MV6 clone, has 25% new oak, and produces the most powerful wines on the estate.
Richer, more tannin, ripe raspberry, some mint and spiced biscuit, but slightly warmer and somewhat more diffuse than the other Curly wines released from 2018. Tannin and more meaty spicy flavours push out the finish. I like it, it’s just that I like it less than the other two. Gary Walsh, The Wine Front 93 Points Drink : 2020 - 2026+
Into the dark woods we go, surrounded by the scent of undergrowth, hummus, dark berries and dried herbs. There’s some serious intent delivered here in the glass. A top vintage, old vines (planted in 1992 and the vineyard’s oldest block) and power to burn all play a role. For the wine nuts, the Central block plantings are the most elevated on the property, 540 metres, and the popular pinot clone in Victoria, MV6, makes the biggest contribution. Colour is deepest crimson. Black cherry, blackberry and black tea – there is a theme happening here –they all rise from the glass together with the scent of earth and undergrowth. Where the flagship 2018 pinot noir from Curly Flat was sweet-fruited, this is savoury and brooding. The tannins are complicit in the savouriness. Central is one of three pinots made from the 2018 vintage, very individual and, to my mind, the most striking with an almost haunting finish. Jeni Port, WinePilot 95 Points
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