Pipers Brook Tasmania Pinot Noir 2021

A restrained, gentle pinot noir likely to build richness and texture with bottle-age. A very youthful, sweet and dusty bouquet of maraschino cherries, raspberries and rose petals reveals hints of citrus oil and tomato stalk. It’s long and presently quite linear, opening up more depth and weight as it breathes, revealing a faintly smoky presence of black and red forest fruits and cedar/vanila oak that extends down a fine, slatey backbone towards a lingering finish of red licorice. It’s a keeper, and I’d cellar it with confidence.