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2019 Dexter Black Label Pinot Noir

Mornington Peninsula, VIC

Seductively soft Pinot Noir from the Mornington Peninsula. Limited release and extremely delicious.

HIGH SCORE

$93.00

Out of Stock

About
Stylish, effortless, and gentle style here.

Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

About the Wine

Tod and Debbie Dexter specialise in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Their vineyard is an exquisite spot for both varieties to flourish, showing off the best the Peninsula can give.

Their Black Label Pinot Noir is only released in particularly spectacular vintages, and always in limited quantity. The fruit comes from the oldest part of the Dexter vineyard, known for high quality year on year, and 60% of it sees whole bunch fermentation.

The end result is a wine filled with personality - soft and seductive, layers of subtle spice with a beautiful earthiness from the whole bunches. Complex and structured, it's one to ponder, for sure. Simply beautiful stuff.

About Dexter

Those with a penchant for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Mornington Peninsula will most likely have had a wine by Tod Dexter.

It may have been under the Stonier label, it may have been under Yabby Lake; regardless, it would have been memorable. Dexter is his own.

Tod and his wife Debbie planted this east-west vineyard in Merricks back in 1987 and have been making their own wines from it for over a decade.

The Dexter vineyard
The Dexter vineyard
Mornington Peninsula, VIC
Additional Info

From the Producer

Hand-picked MV6 was tipped directly into a 2 tonne fermenter. After two weeks the fermenter was foot stomped and then tipped into the press and after pressing transferred immediately to second use French Puncheons. Primary fermentation and MLF were completed before winter. The wine was racked once in the spring, blended with regular fermentation batch (this year D5V12 and Pommard) and put back to second and fourth use puncheons for further ageing. The final blend is 60% whole bunches (MV6) and 40% traditional fermentation.

Blend : Pinot Noir (100%)
ABV : 13.5%
Closure : Screw Cap
Drink Until : 2030
Bottle Size : 750ml

Winemaker Tod Dexter
Winemaker Tod Dexter
Mornington Peninsula, VIC
Expert Reviews

Critic Reviews

95Points
The Wine Front

"Stylish, effortless, and gentle style here. Autumnal Pinot Noir featuring spicy poached strawberry, cherry, a little floral, a subtle mint perfume. It’s feathery and light, but as it takes the air the fine-grained tannin makes its presence known, especially on the long finish. Delightful. Obviously I really liked it." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

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