Pacha Mama Pinot Noir 2022
Bright red cherries, wild strawberries, and beautifully perfumed. This wine is backed by more complex savoury notes and a hint of spice. 🌱 VEGAN
($40.00 per bottle )
($37.00 per bottle as 6 Pack)
($35.00 per bottle as 12 Pack)
Bright red cherries, wild strawberries, and beautifully perfumed. This wine is backed by more complex savoury notes and a hint of spice. 🌱 VEGAN
($40.00 per bottle )
($37.00 per bottle as 6 Pack)
($35.00 per bottle as 12 Pack)
What grape varieties are in this wine?
100% pinot noir.
Where are the grapes grown?
In the Yarra Valley.
What does it smell like?
This wine is everything we love about pinot noir. Crunchy red berries, subtle spicy oak and earthy undertones.
How about the taste?
Medium-bodied with loads of juicy fresh strawberries and cranberries layered with fine silky tannins and crisp acidity.
What food goes with this wine?
DIY Peking duck!
How is the wine made?
This fruit was sourced from the Full Moon Vineyard in the sub region of Gladysdale in the Upper Yarra Valley. Planted in 2001 on chocolate coloured volcanic soils on a gentle west facing slope. Meticulously managed and tendered to by Simon Harte.
Cropping at 2.5-3T/acre. We have been working closely with Simon for the past 7 years. Clones planted are 777, MV6, 114/115 and G5.
Does this wine spend any time in oak barrels?
10 months in 20% new French oak and the balance in 2-6 year old French oak barriques.
Analysis
Alcohol 13.3%
Acid 6.01g/L
pH 3.31
Sugar 0.39g/L
Winemakers Comments
This wine is made with fruit grown on the spectacular Full Moon Vineyard in the Yarra Valley. We use minimal additives or fining with the aim of letting the fruit shine through.
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Expert Reviews
91 points
Phillip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion, 26 July, 2022
(2020 vintage)
“Made from 20yo vines grown at Gladysdale in the Upper Yarra. Matured 10 months in French puncheons (20% new). An attractive and light bright cherry red. A little oaky at present, but once this settles down, there is more than enough stuffing in the way of red and black fruits together with some lifted, Asian spice notes. The palate flows nicely with mainly red fruits coming to the fore and fine yet persistent tannins round off a wine to consume now and over the next 3-4 years.”
93 points
Huon Hooke - The Real Review, 7 January, 2022
(2020 vintage)
“Medium to light ruby colour with brick and slight purple tinges. The bouquet is complex, smoky-spicy and gently bunchy, with smoked smallgoods aromas and lots of dark-cherry. The palate is intense and light to medium-weighted, with light but positive tannins, the finish very long and satisfying. Delicious drinking and great value.”
92 points
Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion, 13 August, 2021
(2019 vintage)
“Judiciously mixes sweet, ripe red cherries, roses and hips with dried herbs and a little caramel wood flavouring. Although there's not a lot of definition, tannins are squishy soft and acidity is tinkering in the background. It is also firmly in the drinking pleasure zone for a lighter-style pinot.”
The Wine Front, July 1, 2021
(2019 vintage)
“A solid, easy-to-drink pinot noir with a dry, well-formed finish. Stewed cherry-berry flavours with inlays of dry spice, clove and cedar. Varietal in a macerated way. Love the fine, sheeted formation of tannin here; it finishes the wine off perfectly.”
90 points
Gary Walsh - The Wine Front, May 21, 2020
(2018 vintage)
Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion, 19 June, 2021
(2017 vintage)
“There's a lightness throughout with enough sweet-sour cherries, fragrant damp undergrowth and spice plus pliable tannins to keep one's interest.”
92 points
Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front, May 12, 2019
(2017 vintage)
“Fine-boned pinot noir. Spicy and light. Cranberry, red cherry, autumn leaves and flings of spice. An array of scents and flavours are presented for you. Immaculate pinot. “
90 points
Huon Hooke - The Real Review, 2 September 2018
(2017 vintage)
“Medium to full red/brick-red colour with a faint trace of purple. The bouquet is of mixed forest berries with a slight green leaf, herbal note and a hint of green stems, perhaps. It drinks very well.”
92 points
James Halliday - Halliday Wine Companion, 19 June, 2021
(2015 vintage)
“From valley floor and Upper Yarra vineyards, each vineyard and each clone handled separately, destemmed, 3-5 days cold soak, fermented in small open fermenters, 2-3 weeks on skins, matured for 10 months in French barriques (20% new). A fragrantly pretty red berry bouquet leads into a delicately framed and structured pinot, showing no hint of over-extraction. This is a pinot lover's pinot, superfine, but needing more time for its spicy/savoury flavours to develop - which are guaranteed to emerge.”
Richard Crowley - Wine Time, April 5, 2018
(2015 vintage)
"A nice contrast from the deep berry colour of the shiraz, the pinot noir is a bright ruby red and a version with plenty of earthy undertones. The layered flavour profile of the wine finishes with silky tannins and plenty of length."
