Tasting Notes
colour
Light crimson colours with ruby hues.
aroma & palate
This bright ruby, elegantly structured wine offers a crunchy array of red fruits, with notes of pomegranate, cranberry, raspberry and rosehip . Subtle oak spice weaves throughout, with lingering hints of bay and fresh thyme yielding a wine with poise and precision.
cellaring
Will reward careful cellaring of seven to ten years.
Technical
vintage
Constant spring winds during budburst caused low vine yields. The region experienced cooler than average temperatures over the growing season causing a longer ripening period with delayed harvest dates. The driest vintage to date producing extremely high-quality fruit.
winemaking
Superb Pinot Noir from the Glengarry Vineyard was hand-picked and fermented in 2T open top fermenters, with 15% whole bunch inclusion. Gently hand plunged, with gentle pressing to tank post MLF, followed by 10 months maturation in large format French oak (25% new) before selective barrel blending and bottling with minimal additions.
region
Tasmania
variety
Pinot Noir
analysis
- Alcohol: 14.0%
- pH: 3.45
- TA 5.80 g/L
Awards
Royal Hobart Wine Show 2023
Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2023
Global Pinot Noir Masters 2024
Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023
Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2024
Reviews
Halliday Wine Companion 2025
Single-site pinot noir from the Glengarry vineyard to the north-west of Launceston. An airy ruby in the glass. There's great detail and clarity in this wine. A translucent curtain of raspberry, red cherry and cranberry fruits offers glimpses of other characters behind. Souk-like spice and amaro herbs, wildflowers, Chinese barbecue tones, ginger tea, softly spoken oak, pomegranate, mushroom broth and gamey meats. It shows a wonderful sense of space and composure with lacy, mineral acidity providing luminensence, form and cadence, gliding savoury and true to its destination.
97
Tyson Stelzer, Wine Business Magazine 2024
Lowestoft captures a very different mood in Glengarry north west of Launceston than it does in its home vineyard in the Derwent Valley, expressing the cool and humid 2022 vintage with a vibrant tangy and elegant mood of morello cherries, wild strawberries and rose petal lift. Driven by cool acidity, marrying with beautifully fine tannins to define a streamlined and perfectly polished fuselage of long-distance endurance of Burgundian proportions.
95
