If savoury Pinot is your thing, this Levantine Hill Colleen's Paddock may well fill your bucket.
It's an intense and concentrated Pinot with plummy and dark cherry fruit steering the ship until a wave of savoury delight crashes through.
Matured in a mix of 500, 300 and 228 French oak barrels (27% new) for nine months, this was still powering along strongly on the third day of tasting.
Twigs, dried leaves, pine needles, mushroom broth, cola and soy build layers of interest with dried strawberries and some rhubarb sitting in the background. Tense, the flavour concentration is coiled on the mid-palate with a vice-like grip. Not as composed and lacy as previous releases, I suspect some more bottle age will be of benefit. That said, the tannins are showing a powdery presence and it's safe to say this will live comfortably beyond a decade.
Drink 2027 to ten years+
93/100
Region: Yarra Valley
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