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Great Dogs
A very special series of Pinot Noir that commemorates the dogs in our lives.
The Great DogsOur premium pinot commemorates some of the finest, furriest, four-legged friends we’ve had. |
Great Dogs » Pinot Noir Vintages » 2008 / 2008 / 2011 / 2011 / 2009 / 2009
The fifth in the Palliser “Great Dog” series, this is a very special Pinot Noir from our Pencarrow vineyard in Martinborough. It has been barrel aged for 16 months in two-thirds new oak casks, has excellent colour, layers of ripe classic Pinot Noir flavours, structure and texture.
Deep red.
The nose is a real knockout displaying black cherry, game, spice and vanillin oak characters.
It's concentrated and powerfully framed on the palate with excellent mid palate weight, velvety texture and loads of polished tannins. There are layers of delicious flavours yet the wine is perfectly structured ensuring its long life ahead
The Great Marco is a small bottling of specially selected 2009 Martinborough pinot noir. The wine is a blend of the Burgundian clones 777 and 667 Pinot noir grown on our Pencarrow Vineyard. This vineyard, with shallow soils over free draining gravel sub soils normally produces our best pinot noir and in 2009 with an excellent growing season this was again the case.
With excellent composition at harvest and nice ripe grape tannins the grapes were destemmed, cool soaked for 5 days then fermented warm and then kept on skins for an extended period to build a supple but substantial phenolics profile.
Matured in oak casks for 16 months with sixty percent new oak used.
A stylish Pinot that's sure to mature gracefully. At its best: now to 2020
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