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Single Site Swansea Pinot Noir Magnum 2021

Dalrymple Vineyards
Single Site Swansea Pinot Noir Magnum 2021

As views go, the Swansea vineyard has a cracker. The 22-year-old vines look out over Great Oyster Bay on Tasmania’s east coast. It’s a spot that suits them. The result is a veritable rich Christmas cake of flavours; all concentrated spice and lashings of nice. Slightly lower acidity delivers a Pinot Noir that’s like a gentle, comforting hug. It’s rich, ripe, plush and rewarding to drink as a young wine.
Item No. DALSPN2115-BT
3.7 out of 5 Customer Rating
1.5L Bottle
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As views go, the Swansea vineyard has a cracker. The 22-year-old vines look out over Great Oyster Bay on Tasmania’s east coast. It’s a spot that suits them. The result is a veritable rich Christmas cake of flavours; all concentrated spice and lashings of nice. Slightly lower acidity delivers a Pinot Noir that’s like a gentle, comforting hug. It’s rich, ripe, plush and rewarding to drink as a young wine.
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The Details

Tasting Note Savoury notes with cocoa, rosemary and oak spice aromas overlay a core of tamarillo and ironstone. The palate is classic Swansea; soft, plush yet glossy tannins seamlessly in tune with natural, fine acidity. Ripe raspberry and cherry give richness to the mid-palate while underlying Christmas cake spice is very appealing with a long finish.
Best Enjoyed With Red cabbage braised in a medley of blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry served with barbeque venison steaks and redcurrant jelly. Layered beetroot, sweet potato, chard and celeriac pastie slice served with spiced tomato sauce.
Treatment The fruit was hand-picked with a small percentage of bunches placed into open top fermenters, the balance added after being destemmed. Fermentation commenced and concluded ten days later with gentle plunging. The wine was pressed before being racked to French oak barriques (33% new), and underwent malolactic fermentation during its 10 months in barrel.
Vintage 2021
Varietal Pinot Noir
Region Tasmania
Alcohol by Volume 14.5%
Winemaker Peter Caldwell
Cellaring Recommendations Will continue to develop savoury note complexities with careful cellaring over 5 - 8 years
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Delivers a sense of clarity and detail
A single-site pinot noir from Swansea on Tasmania's East Coast from winemaker Peter Caldwell. Perhaps not as nervy as his Pipers River wines, but the Swansea vineyard delivers a sense of clarity and detail in its form with pristine red cherry and redcurrant fruits, hints of fine spice, Chinese roast duck, shiitake broth, a light wash of amaro herbs and purple floral notes. Very pretty on the nose, perhaps blossom mixed with some iodine-like coastal influence, finishing complex, gamey and long.
Dave Brookes

Delivering flavor and precision
A cool, coastal source. Whole bunch spike and its inference of dill, lime pickle and Indian spice kick off. Red cherry and a medicinal curb of Chinotto. The acidity is a little shrill, although the mid-weighted palate is nicely packed, delivering flavor and precision. The end, a tangy acid linger. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
Ned Goodwin

A full-throttle pinot noir
Good medium-deep colour with purple tints and a dusty/herby whole-bunch driven bouquet with Campari, raspberry and dark-cherry underneath. Superripe sweet fruit in the core, almost too much of a good thing, followed by robust tannins and a hint of alcohol heat. A full-throttle pinot noir.
Huon Hooke

Dangerously enjoyable
The Dalrymple Single Site Swansea Pinot Noir is a newbie for me and I like what I see. Part of the Single Site range, the poise and drive are what I'm here for. Soft spices have a ripple effect through the mouth. Earthy and undergrowth things early before it gets serious with dark fruit, plums and dark chocolate stepping into the frame. Fruit bun spices build with time. There is some warmth but it's comforting rather than hot. Above all, it's dangerously enjoyable. Drink to five years+
Steve Leszczynski
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