Paringa Estate 'Estate' Pinot Noir 2021

95 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

Not a shy and retiring wine, but by golly this is good. Full of forest floor and menthol aromas, flavours of dark cherries, rhubarb, chinotto and blood orange with lots of refreshing acidity but also plenty of tannins. Fuller bodied, firm and forceful yet the fruit is sweetly flavoured across the palate. There’s a lot going on in this wine.

95 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

I often think of Paringa Estate as making a bolder style of Pinot Noir, though that has changed over the past number of years. Now they have a vaguely Italianate (Etna v Verduno Pelaverga) quality, which of course I love. But don’t mind me. Quite some perfume here, dried roses, aniseed and mint, spiced strawberry and red cherry. It’s medium-bodied (and only just), has plenty of red fruit, but also a pleasing blood orange and amaro tang, tannin is fine with a pumice stone feel, there’s a quiet succulence, but also a firm acid line, which carries on to a sappy and white peppery finish of excellent length. It’s bony and brisk, but absolutely delicious and individual. I like it a whole lot.

91 POINTS

Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2021 Estate Pinot Noir leads with a firm bouquet of sour cherry, bramble, clove, a hint of star anise and layers of dehydrated orange peel. The fruit is lean and shaped by fine, grippy tannins and tart plum-skin acidity. It's savory and silky at the same time with a subtle malty, caramel sort of character through the finish. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.