2021 Bass Phillip Estate Pinot Noir 1.5L
2021 Bass Phillip Estate Pinot Noir 1.5L

2021 Bass Phillip Estate Pinot Noir 1.5L

95 pts
Bass Phillip |Gippsland |Pinot Noir
Bass Phillips's well-priced estate Pinot is an excellent cellaring prospect. One of the icons of Australian wine heritage.
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$290.00
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Description

The Estate Pinot Noir is the anchor of the Bass Phillip range – a pure expression of the original Leongatha vineyard that defines the house style. 2021 was the first full vintage made under the new ownership, with Jean-Marie Fourrier and winemaker Adam Francis guiding the estate into its next chapter. The philosophy hasn’t changed – organic farming, tiny yields, gentle handling – but there’s a new precision and energy to the wines.

The season was long and cool, perfect for Pinot. Fruit was hand-picked, wild-fermented with minimal extraction, and aged in fine French oak – enough for texture, never too much for flavour. The focus is always balance, clarity and a sense of place.

In the glass it’s beautifully aromatic – red cherry, rose petal, a little spice and forest floor. The palate is fine and silky, layered but not heavy, with that classic South Gippsland tension holding everything in line. Elegant, detailed and quietly powerful, it’s Bass Phillip doing what it does best.

95 points
"As seamless as it gets thanks to superfine tannins and a powder puff of acidity."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "An elegant style, almost gentle with every element from fruit and acidity to tannins neatly in place. It’s a complete wine. Red cherry accents, rose petals, charred radicchio and a host of spices for good measure. It continues to unfurl beautifully in the glass. As seamless as it gets thanks to superfine tannins and a powder puff of acidity." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Medium full ruby with a tinge of purple; the aromas are of red fruits, the profile lean and elegant, with bountiful drying tannins, and touches of foresty pinot mystery. The wine is lean and drying on the aftertaste. Nice elegant wine, worth a little cellaring also." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

Bunches are carefully sorted upon arrival at the winery
on a sorting table then conveyed to a ‘state of the art’
incline destemmer. The whole berries are gently
conveyed directly to open fermenters with an addition
of 40 ppm SO2. A natural ferment starts usually within
4 days but hand plunging commences from the start
until draining/pressing. Usually between 10-14 days
from harvest, the wine is drained, the skins pressed
gently and combined with the free run wine which is
settled for a week or so before racking to barrel using
gravity. Malo lactic occurs naturally in barrel and
once complete the wine gets 60 ppm SO2. Our Estate
Pinot is a selection of the best barrels of our Leongatha
vineyard of which 22% were new this year. All barrels
are lightly toasted and extra tight grain oak. Barrels are
topped and checked regularly. Wine stays in barrel for
14 months, then it simply gravity decanted off lees via a
spigot inserted at the bottom of the barrel to a blending
tank. No fining of any sort, or filtration before bottling
in July 2022. A natural deposit may become present
over time in the bottle.

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Gippsland
Australian State VIC
Feature High Score
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 95
Size 1500ml
Vintage 2021
Closure Cork

Bass Phillip

Phillip Jones founded Bass Phillip back in 1979 and in the intervening years built a deserved reputation as one of Australia's best producers of Pinot Noir. For decades Jones farmed his Gippsland plot with adherence to organic and biodynamic farming, the meticulous attention to detail in the vineyard yielding some of Australia’s truly world class wines.

So, it was only fitting that one of France's greatest Pinot Noir producers, Jean-Marie Fourrier, should take on the winemaking mantle as Phillip eased into retirement.

These are wines of power, personality and persistence, and need a place in every true collector's cellar. Bass Phillip is arguably some of Australia's most important benchmarks for Pinot Noir and this new chapter of their story is going to be very exciting to watch unfold.

Biodynamic icon of South Gippsland Bass Phillip

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