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2019 Circe, Hillcrest Road Pinot Noir, Mornington Peninsula, Australia

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready, but will improve
Product: 20191361007
2019 Circe, Hillcrest Road Pinot Noir, Mornington Peninsula, Australia

Description

Mornington Peninsula is famed for its elegant styles of Pinot Noir and the Hillcrest Road is always at the top end of the absolute refinement that can be found in this region. A superb single vineyard, this incredibly restrained and sophisticated wine has fine, light redcurrant fruit on the nose with light touches of slightly tart red cherry. The palate is fine and pure, delicate yet savoury, rather than pretty in style. The restraint here is clear, a reflection of the basalt, volcanic soils in which the grapes are gown. Hints of autumn leaves and bonfires come through along with more red cherries on the long, subtle finish. This is a wonderfully fine and savoury style of Pinot Noir.

Drink 2025 - 2026

Catriona Felstead MW, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready, but will improve
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full Bodied
Producer Circe Wines

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Circe Wines

Circe is a boutique label from Dan Buckle (of Domain Chandon) and Aaron Drummond (of Craggy Range). It is produced with fruit from the Hillcrest Road vineyard in Red Hill, Australia’s Mornington Peninsula. The vineyard grows Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes on deep red volcanic basalt soils.
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