East Coast Tasmania –
It is hard not to be fixated on the East Coast thing with Tasmanian pinot noir. It IS a few degrees warmer down that strip – even the vegetation looks ever so slightly Mediterranean. Julian Alcorso’s Winemaking Tasmania makes the wine from the Dunbabin’s Cranbrook vineyard.
Newly-released vintage 2010 Milton Pinot Noir reinforces the Milton style with mouth-watering aromas of red cherry, cardamom, rose petal and sweet orange. In the mouth it's juicy and supple and up to matching it with anything from char-grilled octopus to rare beef fillet.
This
pinot was produced from grapes grown in Milton's homestead block,
planted in 1998, and from the earlier, 1992 planted vines grown on the
stoney red soils of the Cranbrook block.
