Nikkal Pinot Noir 2018

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Product Details


Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2018

Size
750ML

ABV
13%

Features
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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Cherries, raspberries, rhubarb and a touch of spice all find a place to create a vibrant, full and generous wine with a velvety and fleshy texture. Bursting with flavor, this is a supple wine with youthful juiciness. A blend of pinot noir grapes from four vineyard sites which truly captures the essence of the Yarra Valley. Each vineyard brings a different element to the wine, with the overall theme being bright fleshy fruit.

Professional Ratings

  • 93

    Gentle reduction here with fine, fresh red cherries and a sappy, gently herbal edge. The palate has a beautifully fine feel with such precision and freshness on offer.

  • 91
    COMMENTARY: The 2018 Nikkal Pinot Noir is tightknit and lively from start to finish. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of tart, red fruit, and savory spices. Enjoy its palate-tension with grilled, dill-accented salmon fillets. (Tasted: June 18, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
  • 90
    Pale ruby color; juicy and smooth with bright cherry and soft spice; lively, balanced and long.
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Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”

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Yarra Valley Wine

Victoria, Australia

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As the most important area of wine production in Victoria today, the Yarra Valley is most popular for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, which account for over half of vineyard acreage. A gentle, rolling and rural region alongside the Margaret River, the Yarra Valley has a cool maritime climate with a lengthy growing season, perfect for these cool-climate varieties.

Two styles of Pinot Noir are possible here. The warmer Lower Yarra Valley with sandy, loam soils, produces plush and fruity Pinot Noir while the cooler, higher-elevation Upper Yarra Valley with soils of young red basalt, produces more angular and mineral-driven Pinot Noir.

Yarra Valley Chardonnay is among the best in Australia. To preserve the floral aromatics and fresh citrus flavors for which this area’s Chardonnay is so appreciated, time in barrel is restrained (though barrel fermentation is common). The best Yarra Valley Chardonnays display brilliant acidity, leesy characteristics, citrus, stone fruit and flavors of ginger and spice.

Shiraz and Cabernet find success in parts of this region as well.

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