2021 Hardys HRB Pinot Noir

COLOUR Bright Crimson Red NOSE Lifted and perfumed with sweet ripe strawberry, red cherry and forest floor notes. PALATE Poach Strawberries, mulberries and black cherry flavours complimented by violets, sage and notes fo fresh tilled earth. The wine has a silky richness, impressive complexity, precise balance and finishes with a plethora of fine velvety tannins

2021 was a cool year with good winter rainfall setting the vines up well for steady Spring growth and aided by a very dry November. Happily, neither frost nor wind were an issue this season, and the vines ticked slowly along through the cool season, enjoying regular rainfall. The big rain event at the end of March did less damage than we feared in those regions hit hardest, although flavour ripeness was delayed. As a result, fruit was picked clean later in the season with higher than average Baumes, resulting in wines with complex flavour, ripe structure and lovely mid palate weight. The 2021 Pinot Noir is ripe and fully flavoured with great length and mouthfeel. A very promising year indeed