Hurley Hommage Pinot Noir variety_sangiovese

Hurley Hommage Pinot Noir variety_sangioveseProducer Hommage is in between Lodestone and Garamond in almost every way. It is harvested second. Typically, it smells distinctly of ripe plums and the forest floor. It can have the subtle fragrance of flowers. Invariably it tastes of wine gums and jubes. You can always see soft, squishy berries, like mulberries, and firmer ones, like blueberries. The fermenting vats actually smell and taste that way! Hommage tastes more of fruit than earth. It is

and there's a graphite hint to the tannins

" - Campbell Mattinson

It offers crisp red fruit

Normally we would do multiple harvest dates over four weeks

dark berry fruits and some sage adding a background herbal lift

with flavours of bright red fruit drying tannins on the finish

Lange rather than Barolo in style the wine was elevaged in large format neutral french oak

It’s a definite ‘yes’ if it’s within reach

and cellar door produce sparkling Pinot Noir

then a whisper of brine at the end

but with the acquisition of the Malbec vine

dried fruit and honey