2013 Hoddles Creek Pinot Noir Wickhams Road Gippsland

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  8/4/2018 - RieslingFanatic Likes this wine:

  Red cherries, spice, damp earth and forest floor characters on the nose. Palate is savoury, the fruit beginning to slightly fade, delicate decay beginning to emerge, but so balanced and fine, lovely tannins and acid drawing out the finish. Delicious.

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  5/9/2017 - RieslingFanatic Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Drinking well now. On opening, rhubarb, cranberry and unripe strawberry flavours were swamped by twiggy/undergrowth, campfire/smoke and savoury notes. With some time, the fruit staged a fightback. Still, it is a lighter bodied PN (as the Wickhams Rd generally are), fruit finishing a touch stewed on the finish but still with good acidity and balance.

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  7/19/2014 - AlexGarner wrote: 92 Points

  In my last tasting note, I speculated that the initial lack of balance (for about 30 minutes or so) was due to youth, and I think I'm right, as this bad boy is punching way above its weight.
  
  Incredible value, and definitely a step above the Yarra and Mornington versions of this wine.
  
  The savouries and florals are turned up another notch on the dial from last time, so I think I'm correct that this wine is on a journey. My local merchant still has a few bottles left. They're mine!

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  4/5/2014 - AlexGarner Likes this wine: 91 Points

  When I first opened this, it was all over the place - with a flat nose and an unbalanced acidity. I'm putting this down to the fact that it is very young, because after an hour or so, things started to come together.
  
  The nose is very floral, with delicate rose petal, underbrush, stewed rhubarb and a lifted sweetness that reminded me of fresh pine needles.
  
  The palette is bright and lively with bold acid and tightly-wound fruit with only a hint of subtle tannin. There is a lot going on here and I'd really like to see this in another 6 months as I suspect this is going places.

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  2/17/2014 - CamWheeler wrote: 90 Points

  Luna with Attila and co.: Roses on the nose, spice, cranberry and red cherry. Structured, with lovely balance between sweet fruit and tannin. Very good lengt. Difficult to beat for the price.

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