Kelly's Reserve Tasmania Pinot Noir

Rich and luscious - ripe red and black fruits. It’s a funny thing how full bodied this wine is which comes from one of the most southerly (cold) vineyards (Huon Valley Tasmania) in Australia. We visited there a few years ago and had lunch. Medium to full bodied with sweet black cherry flavours but I might have gotten the Food/wine match wrong - too floral and pretty perhaps to go with venison. I should have chosen Syrah or a GSM - an excellent wine nevertheless.

Last note on the 2015 vintage was in January 2017. Same notes as previous - luscious raspberry notes. I drank this in Toowoomba a few days ago and now on the Gold Coast. Needs to be a regular purchase. Too delicious not to be.

Aromatic notes of rose and violet. Great depth of delicious flavour on the medium bodied palate. Red fruits - savoury and rich. See previous note for the 2014 - always excellent but 8 years of cellaring has enhanced this wine. To have won the Jimmy Watson Trophy for the Best One Year Old Dry Red at Royal Melbourne and still starring now at 8 years of age shows this is a wine for all seasons and all years. Should be a regular purchase. A Winner.

Home Hill has become a rising star on the Australian Wine Show scene for the quality of their cool climate Pinot Noir. This wine had aromas of cherry and a little stemmy character. The palate was sweet with plums and black cherry. Very fluid and supple tannins - seamless. Medium weight palate and drinking well now. HH has a drinking window of 2017 to 2029. Cannot see it myself. My remaining 2 bottles will be gone in the next few years - just too delicious. Winner of the 2015 Jimmy Watson Trophy for the Best One Year old Dry Red at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show. From the most southerly vineyard in Australia.

Deep Ruby in colour. Cherry, red fruits generally, stems and a Jujube confectionery note. Intense red fruits on the medium bodied palate. Lovely texture and mouthfeel - sweetish. So obviously delicious it is difficult to look beyond anything else. From Australia’s most southerly vineyard in the Huon Valley south of Hobart. Visited there a few years ago with the family and had a lovely lunch. This wine won the Trophy for Best Pinot Noir at the Australian Cool Climate Wine Show in 2014 - and one can see why.

Medium plus ruby in colour. Aromatic aromas of fresh cherries Roses and Violet. Restrained for a Home Hill Reserve but remains quite opulent but not as full bodied as Central Otago. Soft fluid tannins with low Acid - red currant and strawberry. Just a gorgeous pretty little wine. Not drawing too long a bow to say it smells like a young DRC. A good wine to drink young or up to 10 years. Won the Trophy at the Australian Cool Climate Wine Show. Home Hill developing Cult status for its Pinot Noir on the Aussie Show Scene.

Notes of earth, cherry, beetroot and rhubarb. Good core of sweet fruit which will become more savoury with age. Winery says it will cellar for 15 years but hard to see it better than it is now with that lush silky fruit. Somewhat of a tadpole wine with the upfront fruit fading to a short finish. A crowd pleaser.

Youthful Ruby colour. Cherry City on nose and palate in the riper spectrum. A little latent and needs more cellaring to show its full potential. I just needed to see why the Judges awarded the Jimmy Watson Trophy for Best One Year old Dry Red at last years Royal Melbourne. Medium bodied with savoury fine supple tannins with excellent length as you would expect with a JW Winner. Having lunch here at the winery on the 30th Dec with the family.

Pronounced nose - leaps from the glass with Indian spice, violet floral notes, oak and red fruit. Almost showy, but the fruit generosity on the palate is matched by spice and woodsy complexity; length and balance impressive.

Somewhat of a cult Pinot in Tassie. Home Hill wins many trophies on the Show circuit. Very aromatic nose - a touch sooty. Medium
Weight palate quite long. Noticeable acid at finish. Good. 17+.