Varietal	100% Pinot Noir
Closure	Diam	Size	750ml
Acl/Vol	13.5%	Enjoy	Now - 2012
Carlei ‘Estate’ wines are individual vineyard wines made only in exceptional years, using fruit from very low yielding dry grown vineyards. As a result, they express the unique ‘terrior’ of each site; a combination of climate, soil and aspect that results in each wine having an individual personality. The 04 ‘Estate’ Yarra Valley Pinot is quite complex on the nose, this wine delivers opulent lifted sweet ripe strawberries and cherries with some savoury toasty bacon fat and some truffle. On the palate it is velvety, juicy, earthy, meaty and savoury. Boastfully, it is a quite forward and powerful wine with balanced acidity at the finish as well as good velvety tannins. While drinking well now, it is a wine that will continue to build in structure and flavour whilst simultaneously harmonizing. The wine will continue to develop and will take on more truffle and earthy and complexity as it ages.
What the critics think
“Rich, ripe damson plum fruit on a full, round and fleshy palate; very good balance, structure and length; somehow retains elegance. Rating 94 points.” James Halliday – The Australian Wine Companion - 2008