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Chris Hill Reserve Leap of Faith Pinot Noir 2024 (12x 750mL) Adelaide Hills

Description:

Pinot Noir is arguably the most challenging of all varieties for both the vineyard and the winemaker. It can be highly variable and unforgiving but in the right circumstances it delivers wines of unparalleled excitement. Every vintage is a Leap of Faith hoping for the right growing conditions, looking for the perfect moment to harvest and selecting the right barrels for maturation. The 2024 season produced this lovely, medium bodied wine with layers of flavour and a velvety soft finish. It has a silky texture, juicy richness and supple tannins ready to drink now.

Chris Hill Reserve Leap of Faith Pinot N

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Region:: SA - Adelaide / Adelaide Hills
State:: South Australia
Country:: Australia

Winery Tasting Notes

Colour

The appearance is a bright crimson to cherry red with subtle hints of purple amethyst and deep plum

Aroma

The bouquet is a potpourri of sweet perfume and complex savoury aromas, like walking into a farmer’s market. There are fresh dark berries, smoke house meats and dried herbs. Oak maturation is subtle but obvious and there are hints of baked pastry and spiced rum.

Palate

The palate is medium bodied after the initial burst of ripe strawberry fruit. The savoury flavours of oak and smoked meats add weight and dimension from the middle and are supported by firm gripping tannins that give texture and balance. The finish is long lasting with a hint of mocha and dark chocolate.

Food Matching

This is a wine for sophisticated flavour pairings; duck liver pate on crispy lavosh bread or steak tartar with herbs, spices and raw egg yolk, confit duck leg or twice cooked Szechuan Pork Belly. It can handle the rich and luxurious flavours and is equally delicious along-side BBQ lamb chops or veal scaloppini.

Winery Profile

My first winemaking experience was harvesting grapes in the Barossa Valley during vintage 1981. Long hot days were spent hand picking bunches of sweet, sticky Riesling, Shiraz, Cabernet, Grenache and a host of other nearly forgotten varieties. At the end of each day after the last bins were tipped into the crusher, we’d meet at the weighbridge with Peter Lehmann for a bottomless glass of robust Shiraz and an inspired conversation about the new wines and vintage developments.

After three decades my day still ends with a nice glass or two of Shiraz or maybe Chardonnay but a lot has changed over that time. From a humble cellar hand plunging skins in open concrete fermenters during the 1980’s, to debating the appropriate cooperage for Hunter Shiraz with Len Evans in the 1990’s to the corporate boardrooms of giant multinationals in the 2000’s, I’m now back to making wine as an independent negociant.

Based in the heart of McLaren Vale, I’m surrounded by wonderful old vineyards and dozens of modern wineries run by talented winemakers. The joy of being a negociant winemaker is the flexibility to be able to source grapes and make wine anywhere throughout Australia. The benefit is an unlimited resource of varieties, regions, styles and skills to craft individual batches of unique wines without constraints.

My goal is to create genuine, honest wines that showcase flavour, vitality and life. Good wine should be accessible to all and be enjoyed as part of a healthy, active lifestyle with fine food, close friends and plenty of fun. I have many favourites but I believe variety is the spice of life and I enjoy discovering new flavours and stretching the boundaries of traditional winemaking.

From an old favourite to something exotic, tantalizing and new, I hope you enjoy the journey through my selection of classic Australian wines.

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Other Information

2024 vintage
12 x 750mL units
SA - Adelaide / Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Screwcap closure
14% alc.

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