Grosset Pinot Noir 2008

Limited..only 600 cases produced

It doesn't happen very often but occasionally you taste a wine and think 'That was incredible. What a delightful wine!' Then you think 'Maybe, I'm mistaken.' This was how Peter Forrestal, respected wine writer and Chairman of Gourmet Traveller Wines Judging Panel, reacted to tasting the 2008 Grosset Pinot Noir. It got worse. Then he thought 'That's not like the other vintages of the Grosset Pinot. It's so seductive, so immediately appealing, has such a satiny texture that it just slips down the throat.

 

There's such a riot of primal flavours, mulberries, brambles, blackcurrants, such perfect varietal character. Maybe it lacks complexity, that's it, it's simple. Maybe, but it's simply gorgeous. There's no apparent structure, such ripe, fine, slinky tannins, how can it age. On the other hand, I can't imagine leaving this in the cellar for very long before I've demolished the lot.

 

Summing it all up, the 2008 Grosset Pinot Noir is delicious and has such amazing immediacy that it may well disappear while in the first flush of youth. There's nothing to suggest that it won't age, except human nature and the capacity of humans to find it difficult to keep their hands off the irresistible. While this may not seem like a typical review, this is an atypical Grosset Pinot, a hedonist’s delight, a pinotphile's pleasure, a red for enjoying.’

 

General Cellaring Guide: Enjoy now or cellar up to 7 years.