By Farr RP Pinot Noir 2021
One of Australia's great pinot noirs, from the Farr family vineyards in Geelong.
"Robyn Pamela (RP) What a fitting wine for Nick’s mum. It’s regal, not that Robyn would want that type of characterisation, but she is and so is the wine. I tasted a wine blind last week that Nick sent me and I starting talking about the fruit profile. He then asked about tannin ripeness, which I had overlooked entirely. (These folk are into the minutiae when it comes to their wine.) The RP is complete. Fruit expression, house style, physiological ripeness (the tannin thing he asked me about) is all resolved, all fully formed and ready. The acid line works more like a Soprano, balancing and thrilling us. The fruit expression just right, dark Xmas cherries, bags of spice and tang and ripe lickable tannins. Remember the bit about hyperbole I mentioned earlier? There’s no basic way to describe these wines, not because these are flavours that don’t exist in wine, but because it’s just so hard to fit them all in to one wine, with the structure just right and the oak there, but not there at all.’"
Ben Knight for Nick Farr.
The fruit for this wine is sourced from the Cote Vineyard which is a close planted / high density planting of pinot noir on a exposed cote. These hillsides facing North, North East and East will be the backbone of the Farr dynasty for decades to come.
"Deep colour, dusky red with a trace of purple in the meniscus; the bouquet is initially big on stalky whole-bunch fermented characters, root vegetables, gradually giving way to dark cherries and dark plums. The palate is full and rich, a bigger boned pinot showing generous smoky oak character as well, bright acidity energising the finish and abundant tannins all coming together in a package that begs for more time and promises to reward cellaring. Seriously impressive concentration. An extraordinary pinot noir."
97 points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review.
"A tribute to the matriarch, Robyn Pamela Farr. It’s elegant and perfumed with sweet strawberry and red cherry lift straight off, and ripe raspberry and gentle spice to follow. It’s buoyant and vibrant, with immediately gratifying appeal, though not at the expense of depth or complexity. The palate is suave, seductive and open, with red cherry, strawberry, red plum and five spice. A fleshy and fulsome wine with a great balance of fruit weight and power preceding a long finish."
96 points, Tom Kline, Decanter, Oct 2023.
| SKU | 1BYFARRPPN21 |
| Brand | By Farr |
| Shipping Weight | 1.5000kg |
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