2022 Paringa Estate Pinot Noir 12 Pack

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Matthew Jukes - Decanter

Bright, crisp, tangy and black fruited (yes, black!), this is a delicious, lively and deceptively powerful wine. It has the same shape, style and minerality of a modern Monthélie, with herbs, spices and a fair old dollop of flashy oak. Peninsula still represents some of the most compelling value for money in the world if you are, like me, obsessed with the Pinot Noir grape.

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Jeni Port - Winepilot

A deep, vibrant crimson purple. Paringa Estate Pinot is never short on colour or flavour and from the outset, the ’22 is all business with scents that work both the earthy, herbal side of the grape and the pure fruited. Ripe, poised, balanced and long, it’s one serious Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir. Offers a generous but balanced mouthful, one that is texturally strong across the middle palate with a core of black cherry, red plum and loganberry fruits, tomato bush and leaf, vanilla and a touch of savoury intrigue against a background of fine, firm tannins. Can be enjoyed now or later – the best of both Pinot worlds.

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Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

For immediate appeal, the Estate is my preferred go-to wine. It’s a gorgeous bright garnet, full of intense flavours – savoury and fruit-driven, as in black cherries, strawberries and fruit compote, then up comes some woodsmoke, forest floor and garrigue plus cedary oak with a slight bitter green walnut character. The fuller-bodied palate is bolstered by plentiful tannins yet reined in by refreshing acidity.

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Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Paringa Estate has been making high quality Pinot Noir for a long time. The high standard has never wavered. This wine crackles along in fine style. It has a mineral aspect and a ripple of grainy tannin and an excellent push of fruit and spice through the finish. It tastes of strawberries and black cherries, Campari-like herbs and woodsmoke, a peppercorn character buried within. It’s firm and serious and yet it has an easy-going complexity. Indeed it’s one of those ‘makes complexity look easy’ wines. It’s good for drinking now but it will improve over the coming years.

93 POINTS

Ned Goodwin - JamesSuckling.com

This is an edgy, mid-weighted pinot that is not bereft of tannins. For the better. Edgy and jittery, moving across the gums and taking position, nobly, at the cleft of the palate. Immensely pleasurable already, with red pastille, bing cherry, dried lavender and sarsaparilla rolling long and vibrant.

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Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

A lifted, distinctive perfume of cherry cordial backed by dried herb, mocha, green peppercorn and wet stones leads to a palate that's lightweight but with structure and bright acidity. It shows regional character, a cool-climate edge, red-fruit tang and lots of likability, while still being seriously structured and age-worthy.

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Julie Sheppard - Decanter

A blend from Paringa's top vineyard blocks, with about 15% whole bunch; aged in French oak barriques (30% new) for 11 months. Mulberries, raspberry and red plum on the nose and palate, with notable freshness. There's a gentle edge of savoury spice aromatically that follows through in the mouth, while a line of crisp acidity keeps this lifted and lively.

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Ned Goodwin - JamesSuckling.com

How good is this for the price! Juicy, aromatic, vibrant and punchy. A mull of bing cherry, orange rind and clove. Mid-weighted and of immense appeal, best served with a brief chill.