2021 Eastern Peake Two Mile Hill Pinot Noir

New release from Owen Latta... a unique single site Pinot Noir full of herbs, berries, cherries and downright deliciousness.
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Young-gun Owen Latta gets the Pinot Noir fruit for this wine from a small 4 acre vineyard just 5kms away from Eastern Peake. He helps farm it, along with the vineyard owner Karel Schaefer.

The vines here were planted in 2017, on top of brown volcanic soil. It sees the regular Latta treatment - that is to say hands off, wild ferments, no fining and no filtering.

Filled with herbal and berry aromas, ripe cherries and and uplifting peppery hit. A lovely thing to drink, for sure.

Karel Schaefer & Family planted their first vines at Two Mile Hill in 2017, it’s a 4 acre site with 3 different soil types & 3 varieties sitting 380m in elevation. The Pinot Noir is planted on weathered basalt chocolate brown volcanic soil, established on the flat base of the hill with no slope, this is the first vintage produced from Two Mile Hill, there’s exciting 2022s in barrel & a really lovely looking crop for 2023.

It’s located 5km form Eastern Peake from which you can still see our vineyard & seems to be one/two weeks earlier than us with flowering & harvest dates. Farming is shared between Karel & us under our guidence. Harvested on 24/03/2021, destemmed using no pumps into a small open top fermenter, spontaneous fermentation indigenous yeast, pump overs twice daily, basket pressed 2/04/2021, transferred into 228L barriques, topped monthly, sulphur added post malo in November, racked from barrels in late march 2022 no fining or filtering, a small amount of sulphur post malo & pre bottling. bottled on 11/10/2022.

93 Points - "Sappy and savoury style red. Scents of baked/dried berries, hazelnut, alpine herb and ripe cherry. The palate strikes a similar chord with chewy but fine tannin, a squeakiness in texture too. Quite intensely red cherried with maraschino and fresh juice combined. White peppery finish, pleasing, lifting the wine. Lovely drink." - Mike Bennie (The Real Review)

90 Points - "Medium ruby with a tinge of purple, the bouquet smoked-meaty and herbal, with stemmy and reductive nuances, raspberry and mint, a trace of clove later, the palate lean and light-bodied, tense and understated, with a trace of metallic bitterness in the tannins which is not disagreeable. Slightly pinched at the end. This is different." - Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

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    11 months ago
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    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Very impressive Pinot

    Aromas of blackberry & mint. That tight tannin structure. For me these minimal interventionist, no fining wines are continually on my shopping list. I loved it.

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