2021 Best's Great Western Young Vine Pinot Meunier

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Best's Great Western |Great Western |Pinot Meunier
Uplifting, delicate red from Best's, made from their 'younger' Pinot Meunier vines.

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Old or Young is simply a matter of perception. The vines for this lovely youthful iteration of Best's famous Pinot Meunier are way older than the average DD staff member. They just aren't over 100 years old, which is the material that goes into the rare Old Vine Pinot Meunier.

All estate fruit from a vineyard planted in the 1970s with cuttings taken from the original 19th century vineyard.

It's just a beautiful, gentle mid-weight wine, with plenty of floral aromatics, savoury spice and and effortless feel. Some sneaky silky tannins on the finish. A sheer delight to drink.

This unique wine comes from our ‘Young Vine’ plantings of Pinot
Meunier which were established in 1970- a century after our “old vine”
plantings and grown from cuttings of those original vines.

Although eminently drinkable now, previous examples of this wine
prove that it will age gracefully for many decades if cellared correctly

95 Points - "Hand-picked fruit, fermented in open-top fermenters with 25% whole bunches, basket pressed to French barriques (10% new), matured 8 months in barrel. Young is always a relative term at Best's – these 'young vines' were planted in 1971. An English garden of arresting aromatic scents, of violets, cranberry, cherry, plum, anise and sage. As always, quietly complex and fleshy, finishing firm in the embrace of fine tannins. Welcomes more time in bottle, as long as you might have." - Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

91 Points - "Medium red/purple colour. Attractive, intense spice, red cherry and raspberry aromas, a certain fruit bonbon aspect, while the palate is light-bodied and has a touch of tannin that puts it in a more serious, savoury bracket than some young meuniers. A deliciously slurpable light red." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

Best's Great Western

Best's Great Western is one of the oldest family-owned wineries in the country.

Their iconic Nursery Block is home to some of the oldest clonal material for particular varieties that can be found anywhere in the world. Established in the late 1860s, this precious vineyard is envied by much of the wine growing world.

Their wines are consistently excellent: the Shiraz dark and powerful, the Rieslings full flavoured and impeccably balanced, and the rare releases of Old Vine Meunier and Thomson Family Shiraz are some of the most collectable red wines in the country.

The Thomson family, and the Best family before them, have given us one of the true treasures of the Australian wine scene.

Viv and Ben Thomson Best's Great Western

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