"Tasmania has impressed at DAWA in previous years for both its Chardonnay and its sparkling wines, and the quality of this Pinot underscores just how significant a part of Australia's wine future the island is likely to be. It comes not from Northern or Central Tasmania, but from the dryer, warmer East Coast sector, hence the 14.4% alcohol -- yet everything about this dark, translucent Pinot suggests balance, freshness and naturally articulated poise. The scents combine dark raspberry fruits with hints of coffee and underbrush; the palate is vibrant, expansive, choice and subtly layered, again built around a core of plush raspberry. Most impressively, too, there is no lack of structure here; affable grape-skin tannins take the lead over the finer textured legacy of ten months in oak." - Decanter World Wine Awards
"Lovely. Distinctly bright and varietal red Pinot fruit. Cool but ripe fruit. I love the hints of mushrooms flowing through it. Very good, charismatic and moreish. What a wine." - Andrew Graham, Australian Wine Reviews
"Deep, bold colour; lots of smoky, toasty oak evident. The palate flavour is sweetly rich and ripe, plush and decadent. A big, solid, gutsy wine of real concentration and power. And it has a bright future." - Huon Hooke
"The 2017 wine grape vintage in Tasmania produced excellent quality, although yields were slightly down from those in 2016. We are very pleased with the balanced acidity and very good flavour and aroma profiles across all wine styles. This is a complex and powerful wine, befitting ts Reserve status. Fragrant aromas of raspberry, cherry and violets flow onto a palate showing intense red cherry and red berry fruit flavours as well as earth and spice hints. With excellent length and balance and tannic structure, this limited release wine can be enjoyed now, yet will also reward careful cellaring." - Bream Creek
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