2017 Bindi Dixon Pinot Noir

James Suckling - 94 Points
This delivers a very confident, concentrated and seamlessly structured pinot noir, which has a rich array of ripe red cherries, sappy undergrowth and nicely placed spicy oak. The palate opens up with expansive, bright and fleshy red and darker cherries. The tannins curl effortlessly around the long, expansive finish. A great vintage for Bindi pinots.

The Bindi Dixon Pinot Noir is based upon declassified grapes from the Original Vineyard planted in 1988 and grapes from the new Block K, planted in 2001. The ideal of this wine is to produce a delicious, perfumed, spicy harmonious, textured wine that is not as intense, complex nor ageworthy as our individual vineyard wines. Even when the outstanding Block K vines are older we will continue to declassify sections or barrels from each vineyard and produce this wine.

The wine is fermented the same way as our other Pinot Noirs in that it is ostensibly 100% de-stemmed and gently worked in small open vats. The wine spends 11 months in French barrels, of which about 10-15% is new.

Production varies from 500-700 dozen per vintage.

This wine was formerly called Bindi Composition Pinot Noir.