[SOLD-OUT] Ten Minutes By Tractor 10X Pinot Noir 2015

Huon Hooke 94 points!

“Deep red/purple colour and a clean, bright, fresh aroma of dark cherry, with some dusty stemmy, celery-like overtones - possibly from stalks. The palate is full and firm, concentrated and solid, with intensity and drive, structure and backbone. A serious pinot with a big future. I'd cellar it for a year or two more. Very promising indeed. Drink 2018 to 2029.”

Huon Hooke

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Wine Front 92 points!
“10X Pinot Noir has been on quite a roll of good form.

The good forms continues. This is just the ticket. It tastes of strawberry essence, dry spice, brown sugar and forrest berries, and comes laces with the kind of sappy acidity that puts freshness to the front of mind. Satiny texture and just enough tannin to add shape; as a young wine it’s a beautiful drink.”
Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front, October 2016

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Our 10X wines are designed as easy drinking examples of what the Mornington Peninsula can produce. They may have been picked from younger vines or at slightly different times to achieve slightly different characteristics and, as a general rule, they see less new oak and spend less time in oak during maturation. Deep aromas of plum flesh and spice, cola and undergrowth. There’s a richness here that suggests immediate drinking pleasure, yet complexity is there and rewards extended nosing. If richness is the key word for the aroma, so too the palate, though it’s here things become more complex. There’s significant density of fruit flavour - dark berries and plum skins and spice - so much so that one might worry for a second it’s a simple fruit bomb. Not so. From mid-palate onwards, masses of gorgeous textural tannin emerge, creating a velvet ride on which the wine’s flavours roll smoothly through. Ever envisaged fine dining while sitting on a picnic rug? That’s this wine, in a nutshell: generous to a fault and held together by surprisingly strong bones. 

Ten Minutes By Tractor (Julian Coldrey)

 

  Sustainably-made  

Country:

Australia

Region:

VIC- Mornington Pen

Variety:

Wine Red - Pinot noir

Size:

750mL