Unmistakably cool climate pinot. Intense yet elegant with velvety tannins and balanced acidity pulling the flavours right through the palate. Starting to show it's full potential as it opens up in late 2009, but also with years of cellaring remaining.

Caroline's Pinot Noir
Caroline Plummer was an extraordinary vital young woman of great energy, beauty and elegance. Her passion was the study of dance and its healing values.
She assisted in planting of the original block - Caroline's.
In 2003 before her untimely death from a rare malignancy she gave her name to the first pinot noir.
Caroline's Pinot Noir has become our flagship wine. It is made in the years when the season allows grapes which meet our rigorous quality standards.
Ripe fruit, spiciness, savoury aromas satisfying palate weight, minerality, velvet tannins. Extraordinary persistence. Elegance. A wonderful tribute to a wonderful young woman.

Winemaker Jeff's Comments: 'At bottling the wine has a lovely deep crimson/magenta colour and has a nose reeking of crushed mulberries, red currants and damson plums. The oak lends a lovely smokey spice while the cold soak characters offer lifted ethereal violet-like Pinosity. The palate is fine and long with wonderful purity of fruit. The tannins are seamless and well integrated but persistent giving this Ostler Pinot Noir considerable aging potential. One of the more vicarious members of the cellar team describes this wine as being "like the devil in silk underpants jumping down your throat....!!!!"'

Alcohol 13.3%; Residual sugar<1g/L; Titratable Acidity 6.6g/L