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2017 Scorpo 'Eocene' High Density Vineyard Pinot Noir
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Scorpo ‘Eocene’ High Density Vineyard (9,800 vines per hectare) 2017 Pinot Noir is made from hand-picked fruit; Abel clone. It is wild yeast fermented in open stainless steel fermenters with 10% whole bunch and 90% destemmed fruit. It is pressed out after 20 days. Indigenous malolactic fermentation follows a few months after the wine is transferred to French oak barrels (20% new). The wine is bottled without fining or filtration 13 months later. Suitable for vegetarians.
March, 2019
The Wine Front
95+ points.
Scorpo’s wines are always impressive but this new release is particularly so. The word stunning comes straight to mind. This is a measured, moderate wine and yet it has power. It tastes of black cherries and chicory, sweet raspberry, savoury/woodsy herbs, dark chocolate and cedarwood. It carries a fair clip of oak but both the fruit and the tannin have such force to them; the flavours stride through the palate as if on a mission. It’s a striking wine, composed, shot with woodsmoke and mineral, persistent plus. They’ve grown a wine and a half here.
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