wine notes:
A complex bouquet with savoury notes of dried herbs and black pepper evolving to a floral and red fruited perfume. Textural tannins fill the palate but leave plenty of room for the focus to remain with the red cherry fruit and fine acid balance on a quietly persistent finish.
winemaker’s comments:
The Tiger Pinot Noir is a single vineyard wine made from grapes grown in our Tiger vineyard in the Lowburn sub-region. The vineyard is on sloping land up off the valley floor and this elevated cooler position allows the vineyard to ripen slowly, building layer upon layer of flavour nuance and soft silky tannins. The wines from this vineyard typically display spicy aromatic red berry fruits and violets. The palate is characterised by a broad structure and layers of fine integrated tannin and fruit which is more textural than structural. The Tiger is always quite shy and reticent in its youth and after 4- 5 years in bottle it really blossoms and expresses itself.
Bob Campbell MW 95 points
"Supple wine with precision and
purity. Dark cherry, floral/violet,
mixed spice, nicely integrated oak
and berry/blackcurrant flavours.
Restrained, elegant wine that has
been made with a light touch."
WINE PILOT 94 points
"For ‘The Tiger’, we move to a single vineyard in the Lowburn sub-region. A deep garnet in colour, the nose is wonderfully complex with notes of animal hides, red fruits, leather, milk chocolate, soy and cold tea. Finely balanced, this is quite seamless and exhibiting fresh acidity, bright flavours and a lingering finish with velvety tannins. Four to eight years." KG
