An elite Pinot release from Brian Croser’s Foggy Hill Vineyard, here from a cooler year which defines the structure and flavour within. Its colour is all about cherry skin, aroma exuding the same fruit notes with an enticing floral note, fragrant spring blossoms. In the palate there’s a more grounded kitchen herbal thread of flavours – savoury thyme and oregano, saltbush, even – which still allow fruit notes to poke through, before a fairly firm tannin hug ties everything in, pushing a structural finish, yet still the fruit persists till the very end. Impressive. Drink now–2036.
96 Points
