2018 Picardy Pinot Noir

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  5/16/2024 - Cremuel Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Pale thin red, a hint of bricking? Powerful nose of aged menthol, red cherries, bubblegum, pinch of earthy forest floor. Redcurrant and cherry flavours, quite fine, some spiciness, air reveals reasonably fine Pinotesque features. Much better than previous bottles, and sweetness increases with air. Much better than previous bottles.

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  4/11/2024 - Cremuel Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Pale red in the glass, no bricking.Faint nose of cherries and strawberries, dark cherries in the background, a sprinkle of black pepper, not muchfobrest floor. Sharpish redcurrant acidity at the fore, tempers with air, slight reduction, light not particularly refined. Not many layers. Simple and ok.

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  3/1/2024 - Morgan1132 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nice wine, lighter bodied but still generous, red summer fruits, musk, not much sign of bottle age. Tannin is mild and smooth. Well balanced and high quality, if a bit one dimensional

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  1/13/2024 - Cremuel Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Pale red, transparent. Nose of sweet cherries, slight fresh floor, red gum and sweets. Vibrant red fruits, gentle peppery tannins, light, easy, rather good and a definite contrast to the flawed 2019. Quite refined, enjoyable but not complex.

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  5/1/2020 - Greg Munyard Likes this wine:

  A disclosure point first: I have a relationship with this producer. Now to the wine - reviewed a bottle over 24 hours. Goodness - what a beautiful wine. (Is it really Australian??). Due for release in about July 2020 (followed next year by the winery's pre-eminent 2018 pinot noir, the Tête De Cuvée) both wines could cause quite a sensation - here in Australia at least.
  
  A beautiful enticing nose of lovely red fruits with overtones of perfectly ripe cherries, white mushrooms and a touch of aged sweet marsala makes for a seductive start. You know it's going to be in balance on the palate and you just want to get on and taste it - but you just have another look at that nose. And then one more. Oh yes ...
  
  The palate follows the nose, so perfectly integrated and in balance that it's hard to find descriptors. And you don't really want to - you just want to enjoy it. Perfectly ripe fruit of quite delectable flavour, all the way through, with a gentle grip of considerable finesse. Palate weight and length is spot on too - and all this has been derived from a 13% alc. wine. Remarkably approachable for a yet to be released wine (said to be 'not ready') from Western Australia's best pinot producer (IMO) whose best pinots (and this they say is their best year ever) continue to improve for 10 years or so. I told the winemakers it struck me as exuding 'breeding' or class - a Kate Middleton or Ingrid Bergman style of elegance and refinement, depending on your generation. It also made me think about opening one or two burgundies to compare, because it had me reminiscing about some of them. I can't wait to try their 2018 Tête De Cuvée ...

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