Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir 2022

Vine material ranges from 30-40 years. All MV6 Clone, grown on volcanic loam soils. 100% destemmed fruit to concrete fermenters, basket pressed to French barriques. I won’t lie in saying that I swore out loud on first impressions of this wine.  A bouquet of raspberries, rooibos tea, goji and rosehip. Dried gum leaf, bush tomato and paprika. There is Morello cherries, Davidson plum and carob. Plum pit on the middle palate that is swept up in the carrying acidity. Tannins are svelte like and yet still chewy. This is a stonkingly good wine. Amaretto sour, cherry bitters on the finish. It gives and gives!  Drink now and put down 12 bottles if you can for another 8-15 years, watch it change and alter form, as no doubt, you will too.