Pinot Noir, MacMuir, 2021
The maiden vintage of MacMuir is an incredibly voluptuous and seductive one, offering fuller bodied silkily chocolatey fruits, lush and velvety tannins and a wash of forest fruit. This has a languid feel to it with self-assurance. Planted in 2012 with excellent clonal material, for almost ten years it contributed to the Bannockburn Pinot. In the words of Blair Walter, head winemaker, *“while it’s just a few hundred metres west of the our Calvert vineyard, MacMuir impressed from the first harvest with its deeper and richer soils always providing an intensity of fruit and plushness. It’s time now that its unique voice is heard alone.”
critic reviews
The 2021 Pinot Noir MacMuir feels like a work in progress. It's initially a relaxed, fluid style, offering sweet red cherry fruit and showing youthful mocha-like oak, but it is not quite as refined in terms of its tannic quality and togetherness. There's plenty of acidity that ties this together toward a focused, tighten-your-belt one notch kinda finish. Like we're all stuck in a very small space together.