Dexter Pinot Noir 2019

Dexter Pinot Noir 2019Tod Dexter purchased a vineyard site at Tuerong on the Mornington Peninsula in 1987 and planted Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. He became winemaker at Stonier and then Yabby Lake and during that period the Dexter Vineyard provided Stonier with reserve grade fruit. Almost 20 years later, and with a wealth of experience behind him, he started his own label. What he strives for in his Pinot Noir is what he looks for in any wine he drinks aromatics,

Coleraine '20 flashes in the glass

"The key to this being one of the great pinot sites in Australia: east facing slope on grey soils

More pinot noir and chardonnay

Former advertising executive Eric Kurver and his wife purchased the winery in 2009 and renamed it after the nearby town

fine tannin structure promise medium-term potential

I gave it 98

Quality: 5 glasses

"The abiding character of St Henri is its longevity

liquorice and mulberries

"Compared to the two other St Hallett Shiraz offerings

"The fruit was destemmed into small open fermenters with a proportion of whole bunches included

but close to 100 bottles were successfully removed