Shaw + Smith Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2021

 Shaw + Smith Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir

Region: Adelaide Hills, Australia

Vintage: 2021

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Pinot Noir

ABV: 13.5%

This is a complex, aromatic and medium-bodied Pinot Noir with silky tannins and long-term ageing potential. Intense flavours of black cherry and darker fruits are complemented by underlying gamey aromas with great depth and length.

The fruit is sourced predominantly from the cool and high altitude Lenswood vineyard, planted in 1999, which sits 455 to 500 metres above sea level. Undulating with east- and west-facing aspects, the soils here are brown loam over red clay and schist and vine density is high at 2,780 vines per hectare. The Pinot Noir clones used are the 777 from Burgundy and MV6, the backbone of many of Australia's best Pinots. The vines are hand pruned and yields are very small.

Shaw + Smith began over a long lunch in 1989 when cousins Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith decided to realise a long-held dream to make wine together. Their vision remains to make exciting, refined wines, exclusively from the Adelaide Hills, that rank among Australia’s best. The wines are made from a number of sites throughout the Adelaide Hills.

https://www.shawandsmith.com