Hotel Sola Pinot Noir 2025

The fruit here is sourced from the Limestone Coast in South Australia. The vines providing the grapes are now two decades in age. The grapes go into small fermenters as whole berries with a Burgundian yeast strain, with fermentation occurring over a week. Maturation is in older French oak barriques and hogsheads. The colour here is a russet/garnet. A sappy, briary style, quite a lightweight wine, but it is refreshing and bright. Not every wine has to be about power and muscle. On the nose, we have notes of red fruits, herbs, raspberries, mushrooms, woodsmoke, cranberries and a touch of warm earth. The wine is of medium length with sleek tannins and should provide pleasure over the next three to five years.