Toolangi Vineyard E Block Pinot Noir 2021

93 POINTS

Aaron Brasher - The Real Review

Complex aromas of damp earth, sap, spice, red fruits, underbrush and a touch of bunchy funk. Elegant, textured and savoury in flavour. There's red and blue fruits at play, but there's also a woodsy, mushroom and earthy edge. The tannins likewise are firm and drying and deliver plenty of grip and length. Complex and layered

92 POINTS

Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

From a single block of 20-year-old MV6 vines. An even split of whole berries/whole bunches; 25% new barriques. Red fruited but with a fair amount of whole-bunch derived incense and dried herb aromas. Medium bodied with quite plush fruit upfront before quite firm, yet ripe tannins kick in. A promising wine that might need a year or two to show its potential

92 POINTS

Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

From a single block of 20-year-old MV6 vines. An even split of whole berries/whole bunches; 25% new barriques. Red fruited but with a fair amount of whole-bunch derived incense and dried herb aromas. Medium bodied with quite plush fruit upfront before quite firm, yet ripe tannins kick in. A promising wine that might need a year or two to show its potential.

90 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

It’s made from 20 year old MV6 clone, with 50% whole bunches and 25% new oak. E block sounds like something from high school. Or a prison. Carries plenty of spice, cinnamon and baking spice, mint, raspberry and red cherry, maybe something a little autumnal/earthy too. It’s quite sappy and red fruited, spicy too, with powdery tannin, and certainly oak shows as a component to bolster the wine, with a chalky and dry finish of solid length. Not quite cohesive at present. It may well come good. Maybe.