Recent Tasting Notes

Every now and then we taste library stock of older vintages so we can share with you how the wines are developing.

 

 

JULY 2015
SAGGIO DI VINO
BELL HILL TRUFFLE DINNER

BELL HILL CHARDONNAY

2010

Quite concentrated and round, nice tight finish, shows it’s small concentrated crop, quite floral, more restraint with time.

2006

Lovely, opulent, with a lightness of being balanced, quite esterey, good flavour and persistence, hints at minerality and tightens it’s focus with time in the glass, nice linear finish, tactile, textural but light on
it’s feet.

BELL HILL PINOT NOIR

2009

Quite closed at the moment best in a large glass, earthy, lovely minerality and chalky tension, clean, clear finish; with nervosity and a linear structure.

2006

Big concentration of fruit, held together by it’s tannins, very serious, rich and layered.

BELL HILL OLD WEKA PASS ROAD PINOT NOIR

2006

Spicy, with dried herbs; rich spicy palate, good mineral tautness and backbone. youthful, fleshy, quite taut but good mineral tightness. Matched with truffle consome, gives sweetness to wine and softens it.

2001

Very youthful, nice minerality, good colour, herbal at first but good fleshiness on the palate, lovely balanced, the smaller glass keeps it contained and fresh, good lingering mushroom and spice.



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