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NOTES
The Toolangi philosophy is to grow and source the very best grapes from the Yarra Valley and put them in the hands of the very best winemaker for the particular varietal. Our winemakers include Rick Kinzbrunner (Giaconda), Matt Harrop (Shadowfax) and Tom Carson (Yering Station).
The wines are principally made from estate grown fruit supplemented when needed with high quality fruit sourced from the Yarra Valley. Our viticulturalist, whilst maintaining our estate owned vineyards, is additionally responsible for the management of vineyards for outsourced fruit.
Toolangi produces wines with distinctive personalities, each wine showing a strong sense of place. Grapes from exceptional sites together with the experienced hand of the outstanding winemakers, subtly coming into play with each wine. The critical acclaim from some of the country's foremost wine writers confirms our approach.
2005 TOOLANGI ESTATE PINOT NOIR
The 2005 vintage, with quality fruit across all varieties, is unique and is sure to be ranked as one of the best on record. This can be attributed to expert vineyard management and the long, warm autumn producing an ideal ripening period.
This Pinot Noir is made from selectively handpicked estate-grown fruit from our Dixon's Creek vineyard. To maximise the quality of the fruit the cropping levels were adjusted to 1.5 tonnes per acre by crop thinning. Made at Yering station this wine was aged in French oak barriques for 10 months after barrel fermentation with wild and inoculated yeasts.
TASTING NOTES
This is a very fine and delicate Pinot Noir. Offering a pretty, translucent, bright garnet colour, the fruit is tight and a little reluctant to show itself, yet in the glass are flavours of earth, red currants and a milky strawberry softness on the palate. Surprisingly, this wine has spent one month less in oak than the Estate Chardonnay, and the seamless integration of the fruit and its barrels is flawless. There are ghosts of Chinese five spice and those illusive yet obvious fragrant spices in Peking duck, with which this wine would go tremendously well. The Toolangi Estate Pinot Noir has leathery sweetness, black cherry fruit overlaid upon a fine tannin structure and finishes with a twist of quinine for bite. Drink over the next 3 to 5 years - Ben Knight, April 2008
OTHER NOTES
This is a really good show. Seriously good in fact. It's bold and strong and structured, its heart a sure strike of sour, dark cherried flavour. What really sets it flying though is the undercurrent of autumn leaves and cedar smoke, the combination of which gives the wine genuine complexity. It finishes long and tannic - I will be staking some of my own money on this. I'm a big fan. Drink: 2011-2016. 95 points. Campbell Mattinson, Winefront Monthly, 14 May 2008
This has much more richness and complexity than the regular 2006 wine ... and a savoury slant of sweetly pickled oak. Doesn't leap up-seems more resolved and a little closed at the time of tasting. Plenty of supple charm and milky tannins. Nick Stock, WBM 100, May 2008
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