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2017 Punt Road Gamay
Punt Road
Second time round for us with Gamay, and we’ve learnt a lot in 12 months. First, Gamay will set a big crop, with big bunches and big berries. It needs to be thinned hard; 30% went on the ground. In the winery, bunches and bags were key. With those big berries, and in a benevolent year like ‘17, Gamay would have a tendency to be one-dimensional. It seems our house style will be a 50:50 blend of 100% whole bunch ferments, and 100% cab mac, berry ferments in our goon bags. This lifted funk and spice. And then, oak. The time in (old) oak is crucial. The wine fills out and sweetens. So we added two months in oak this year. Still left it on lees, unsulphured for this time. It’s clear that this will be a variety that suits the warmer slopes of our Napoleone vineyard. The vineyard manager loves it, so do we, and the wine makes itself. No finings, minimal filtration on bottling. Got a small SO2 addition a week ago just before bottling. - Tim Shand, Punt Road
August, 2018
Halliday Wine Companion 2019
93 points
50% whole berry and 50% whole bunch. Alive with spice, fruit, texture and more savoury inputs than you could poke a stick at. It works. Roasted nuts, cherries, cranberries, twigs; it's all happening in the glass. It keeps you interested and thoroughly satisfies.
December, 2017
The Wine Front
93 points
Suspect there’s a great future for Gamay in the Yarra Valley.
Ripe cherry and spice, meat rolled in dried herb, fleshy full and juicy, a bit of fresh strawberry tang and a dusting of fine powdery tannin. Bursts with dark cherry flavour on its long finish. A wonderful thing to drink. Bravo Timbo.
June, 2018
Gourmet Traveller WINE
Gamay is enjoying a revival in parts of Australia. The colour is quite a deep, glowing red/purple and it smells invitingly of both red and darker cherries with a foresty overtone. Medium-bodied and nicely balanced, it has plenty of bright, uncomplicated fruit flavour and drinks well already, thanks to light, soft tannins. There is an evident kinship to its relative Pinot Noir and it has enough structure to keep for a few years, and possibly even reward short-term cellaring.
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