Full Case (12 Bottles) 2007 Piccadilly Valley Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir

Price: $330.00

Ashton Hills Vineyard (Stephen George) says:

""Piccadilly Valley" is Ashton Hills' entry level or "village" wine with all grapes coming from the Adelaide Hills' coldest, wettest and most humid wine sub-region, the Piccadilly Valley. About half the wine comes from 16 of our own clones (selections) with the remaining grapes being purchased from two neighbouring growers. The three vineyards have amongst them the oldest pinot vines in The Valley and are all managed in such a way to ensure small crops with maximum flavour and concentration.

Despite generally poor yields Australia-wide in 2007 due to frost and drought, grapes for this Piccadilly Valley pinot were unaffected. This followed good flowering due to a warm spring and abundant rainfall (900mm or 36" in 2006.) Vintage was ideal - warm, dry, clean and early.

The '07 wine was fermented using natural and selected yeasts, spent 10 months in seasoned French oak and was bottled, without fining, in March '08. The colour is already recovering from bottling and is a dark plum red. The nose is emphatically pinot noir, with lots of interest - savoury, mushrooms, violets, rose petals - rather than simply fruity. The palate is medium weight with a fine texture and a long, lingering finish. While the Piccadilly Valley style is designed for relatively early consumption the '07 will, in fact, cellar well."