Giants Steps Fatal Shore Pinot Noir Tasmania 2019/2020

We’ve been searching high and low to find a good quality Australian Pinot Noir and here it is – not just a good one but an outstanding wine from the great Giant Steps Winery.

It’s made from a 34 hectare vineyard planted in 1999 on a north east facing site on calcareous and Triassic sandstone, entirely devoted to Pinot Noir. This wine is made with hand picked grapes which were immediately refrigerated and shipped across the Bass Strait and trucked up to the winery in Yarra Valley the following morning. It was cold soaked for three to four days and fermented with indigenous yeasts with a portion of whole bunches. The finished wine was matured in French oak, 25% new and 75% older oak, for eight months. 

This is an outstanding Australian Pinot Noir