Narkoojee Valerie Pinot Noir 2021This is a pinot noir of exceptional quality from the excellent 2021 season. The Valerie series is made from carefully selected, small parcels of supreme quality wine and named in honour of Valerie Friend as co founder of Narkoojee. The wine was fermented by indigenous yeasts and a portion matured in new French oak hogsheads. It has intense flavour, excellent balance, great length and complexity. Just two hours from the Melbourne CBD but a world away,

The palate is poised and textural—ripe strawberry and red cherry give way to dried herbs

savoury aromas adding to the complexity

"Brendan Hawker’s first beginning-to-end reserve pinot

an avid ‘pinotfile’

expressive

planted in 1998 on basalt granite soils

Planted in 2000 on a small peninsula surrounded on three sides by Lake Dunstan

Clone: Predominantly MV6

dry and teasing

The final wine incorporated 20% whole bunch

Best served with roast duck

the wine matured for 10 months in large-format François Frères French oak puncheons (25% new)