Peake Ranch, John Sebastiano Vineyard Pinot Noir other_regions_australia

Peake Ranch, John Sebastiano Vineyard Pinot Noir other_regions_australiaA barrel sample, the pale to medium ruby purple colored 2018 Pinot Noir John Sebastiano Vineyard opens with a pow! on the youthful nose, giving up aromas of violet, lilac, fresh blueberry and boysenberry jam with cinnamon, orange peel, macerated strawberries, baked rhubarb and dried red cherry plus dried leaves and dusty earth accents. Medium bodied, it offers oodles of perfumed, purely defined fruits with grainy textured tannins and lip smacking

Historically

wild cherry

Discreet raspberry aromas

I like both the intensity and the polished mouthfeel that add appeal of the sappy and built-to-age finish that is hugely long but not really austere

There is a whiff of the exotic to the spicy

pasted nuts and pit fruits

autumn leaves and floral potpourri

So inky and unfathomably profound in shade

This manages to avoid the usual Chassagne rouge rusticity and is a wine that could easily be enjoyed young if that’s your preference

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The succulent if not especially dense flavors exude a subtle minerality before concluding in solidly powerful

Sweet and seamless in the mouth