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Riposte The Dagger Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2018

Riposte The Dagger Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2018

Gold Medal & 95 Points - Adelaide Hills Wine Show 2018

Lush dark berry fruit with striking floral edges combine on the nose of the Dagger Pinot Noir to create a fresh yet complex attack on the senses. Lifted rich fruit and spice parry along the palate to a finish of fine-grained tannin and bright acidity. The Dagger has been honed to create a vibrant, rich, earlier drinking wine displaying all of the hallmark aromas flavours and texture of Pinot Noir. Drink young while the edge is keen. The grapes for ‘The Dagger’ are from Charleston and Gumeracha in the Adelaide Hills.

A very well handled Adelaide Hills pinot, its price reflecting a marketplace that is at present stocked with lots of high quality wines selling below their true value. Drink: To 2025; Alcohol: 13.5%; Rating: 91 Points; James Halliday

Soft and fruit-sweet, charming and deliciously fruit. A really lovely early-drinking wine, with good pinosity and early drinking properties as well as enough structure and intensity to take some age well. This is great value for money. Rating: 91 Points; Huon Hooke

Here we go again. This is fantastic buying. Such good drinking at a snip of a price. Cherry-plum, redcurrant, sweet oak, throws of spice. Its appeal is obvious and immediate. Tannin is gum-smooth; it continues the uncomplicated theme. Rating: 91 Points; Campbell Mattinson

THE WINE

Floral edges with cuts of bright red berries combine on the nose of the 2018 Dagger Pinot Noir to create a fresh yet complex attack on the senses. Lifted rich fruit and spice parry along the palate to a finish of fine-grained tannin and bright acidity The Dagger has been honed to create a vibrant, rich, earlier drinking wine displaying all of the hallmark aromas, flavours and texture of Pinot Noir. Drink young while the edge is keen.

VITICULTURE

The grapes for the 2018 Dagger Pinot Noir are from two carefully selected vineyard sites at Charleston and Gumeracha in the Adelaide Hills. As usual growers were requested to leaf pluck the morning (eastern side) of the Pinot vines soon after fruit set to give the optimum fruit exposure and aid the development of colour, tannins and ripe flavours.

WINEMAKING

Harvested in the cool of night and early morning pristine destemmed fruit is tipped directly into fermenters without crushing to give a high percentage of whole berries. The fermenters are gently pumped over twice a day to keep the skins wet and promote gentle tannin extraction. After pressing the wine is kept in stainless steel tanks prior to blending to preserve freshness and vibrancy.

SPECIFICATIONS:

VARIETY 100% Pinot Noir

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION 100% Adelaide Hills, South Australia

CLONES MV6, 777

ALCOHOL 13.5%