Tomboy Hill Smythes Creek Pinot Noir 2006

Tomboy Hill Smythes Creek Pinot Noir 2006"Tomboy Hill is renowned for its exciting range of single vineyard wines sourced from small vineyards around Ballarat." Huon Hooke Tomboy Hill is a tiny vineyard in Ballarat planted in 1984 by former schoolteacher Ian Watson. Only chardonnay and pinot noir are grown and are planted in the Burgundian mode 1m x 1. 2m grid and low trellised. In addition, fruit is sourced from five other select vineyards in the Ballarat Goldfields district. The

alongside impressive riesling

and it should mature well enough too

Even sans decanting

From an oenological perspective

or a wine that will increase in value

then later suggestions of roasted root vegetables rise to speak their piece

I love the wide array of ripe yet delicate red fruit aromas and the layered fine tannins that give this enormous textural complexity

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gaining momentum

the improbable location – almost equidistant between Melbourne city centre and Mount Mary (the next closest Yarra Valley estate) – is partly down to logistics

More importantly

We have our own bottling line and started a screwcap closure trial 15 years ago looking at different screwcap brands having different wad compositions with varying oxygen transmission rates (OTRs)