Mount Pleasant Mothervine Pinot Noir 2024

The oldest Pinot Noir vineyard in Australia, planted in 1921 by Maurice O'Shea, this mothervine of the MV6 clone produces a truly unique wine of structure and power.

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Mount Pleasant Mothervine Pinot Noir 2024

"What can you expect from Australia’s oldest planted (1921) Pinot Noir vineyard, well firstly if you want it, you need to sign up, as it is for members of Mount Pleasant only. From block MP 12, this speaks of place like any other single site in the range. This more than a curio but a wine that shows its more moderately warm growing conditions and ability to show bright red focused fruit, some web like fine tannins and enough zeal to have you drinking a touch too swiftly. Raspberry leaf, satsuma plums and paperbark skin. Its careful handling allows the purity of the MV6 clone to shine bright, with the capturing of tannins the real star for me. How long will this site continue to produce fruit like this, we don’t know, so buy it and take a touch of Aussie history home with you. I’d suggest drinking it with a time and tested recipe like curried sausages for the wine." 95 Points, Shanteh Wale, Wine Pilot

The famed estate of Mount Pleasant has a well-storied past, founded by the visionary of Australian wine, Maurice O’Shea. It includes plantings of ancestral vines of 1880, as well as Australia’s oldest mother vine Pinot Noir planted in 1921 by O’Shea himself. It is the home of some of the first fine wines of Australia, and with just five winemakers over its 100-year history, it has maintained its status as a benchmark of the Hunter classics, Shiraz and Semillon.

Producer website: https://www.mountpleasantwines.com.au/

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