Single Site Ouse Pinot Noir 2023

Single Site Ouse Pinot Noir 2023

Hit the road and head to Tasmania’s Central Highlands to get a sense of the somewhat isolated place this vineyard calls home. The vineyard is named after the little town of Ouse which is located on the Ouse River. This is a unique site where there are no other vineyards close by. It is a place typically prone to low rainfall, north-westerly winds and stony basalt soil and broken shale down below. It is windswept dry hills of central Tasmania. If you were to pop a pin on the global map, you’d swear this was Burgundian in style; savour the power, structure and savoury notes. It’s something quite special.
Item No. DALOPN236-BT
4.7 out of 5 Customer Rating
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Hit the road and head to Tasmania’s Central Highlands to get a sense of the somewhat isolated place this vineyard calls home. The vineyard is named after the little town of Ouse which is located on the Ouse River. This is a unique site where there are no other vineyards close by. It is a place typically prone to low rainfall, north-westerly winds and stony basalt soil and broken shale down below. It is windswept dry hills of central Tasmania. If you were to pop a pin on the global map, you’d swear this was Burgundian in style; savour the power, structure and savoury notes. It’s something quite special.

The Details

Tasting Note With the site specific sour cherry, savoury and spiced notes, the 2023 also offers a darker fruit component with the addition of the 777 clone. This complexity also adds a touch of rose petal that is very alluring. The palate is distinctively Ouse, with the hallmark savoury tannins and finish, balanced with natural acidity and notes of sour cherry, cola and a seductive texture.
Best Enjoyed With Miso fettucine with a cherry porcini ragù and ricotta salata; or tempura zucchini and spicy radish bao buns with bok choy slaw.
Treatment 10% of the fruit was placed into fermenters as whole bunches, the remaining being destemmed and the whole berries being placed on top. After four days, natural fermentation commenced and the must was plunged two to three times daily. Four days later the skins were pressed to tank and left to settle. The wine was then placed into French oak barriques (30% new) for 10 months of maturation.
Vintage 2023
Varietal Pinot Noir
Region Ouse
Alcohol by Volume 13%
Winemaker Peter Caldwell
Cellaring Recommendations With careful cellaring this wine will evolve gracefully for 7-12 years.
Pack Size Options 1 , 6

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Accolades

Pure, finely honed and shows great structure
Ouse is a super interesting site. Look at a map. It's way up in the Central Highlands, up the top of the Derwent River past Meadowbank Lake. It's cool and remote up there and there is a wonderful focus and intensity to the fruit profile. Wild strawberries, red plum and raspberry with hints of exotic spice, dried meats, leaf litter, Chinese barbecue shop, shiitake, almond blossom, raspberry pip and amaro herbs. It's a lovely smelling wine and those aromas transpose neatly over onto the palate, which is pure, finely honed and shows great structure. Powdered riverstone tannins and a flourish of raspberry on the exit.
Dave Brookes

Lovely wine with real depth of flavour
Medium-deep red with a tinge of purple and an aroma that is more savoury, with traces of meat, beetroot and a smoky reductive note. The palate has dried cherries and is firmer than the Coal River wine, with bolder tannins, and finishes with a trace of chew. Lovely wine with real depth of flavour.
Huon Hooke
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