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JAMES’ HALLIDAY’S REVIEW: Richard McIntyre has taken Moorooduc Estate to new heights, having completely mastered the difficult art of gaining maximum results from wild yeast fermentation. Starting with the 2010 vintage, there was a complete revamp of grape sources, and hence changes to the tiered structure of the releases. These changes were driven by the simple fact that the estate vineyards had no possibility of providing the 5000-6000 dozen bottles of wine sold each year. The entry point wines under the Devil Bend Creek label remain, as before, principally sourced from the Osborn Vineyard. The mid-priced Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are no longer single-estate vineyard wines, and are now simply labelled by vintage and variety. Next come the Robinson Vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, elevated to reserve wine status, priced a little below the ultimate ?Ducs’ (The Moorooduc McIntyre).
Chris Foster –
96 Points, Steven Creber, James Halliday’s Wine Companion, “The most subtle and finely honed of the Moorooduc Pinots from this vintage, with an X-factor. At the risk of annoying those who don’t like such comparisons, it’s hard to not see a Burgundian connection here: the quality of the fruit character, the interplay of oak, the beautifully integrated tannin and acid, the minerally, elemental undertone. It seems superfluous to pick it all apart, suffice to say that it’s pinot of high quality by any measure.”