Bass Phillip
Reserve Pinot Noir
Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
Always a highlight of the tasting year to have a Bass Phillip Reserve Pinot Noir - probably Australia’s best PN - certainly our most expensive. The colour is a light dirty cherry with a tawny rim. See 2 previous Delectable notes. Red fruited (cherry) perfume with rose petals. A touch of caramel oak - Rhubarb/stewed fruits , Forest floor/Sous Bois/Compost heap - great complexity. The light to medium bodied palate reflects the nose. One could keep this in the cellar at least until its 15th birthday in a few years.
Always a highlight of the tasting year to have a Bass Phillip Reserve Pinot Noir - probably Australia’s best PN - certainly our most expensive. The colour is a light dirty cherry with a tawny rim. See 2 previous Delectable notes. Red fruited (cherry) perfume with rose petals. A touch of caramel oak - Rhubarb/stewed fruits , Forest floor/Sous Bois/Compost heap - great complexity. The light to medium bodied palate reflects the nose. One could keep this in the cellar at least until its 15th birthday in a few years.
Oct 4th, 2022Initially ungiving on the nose - latent but the power is there. With air a rose petal note developed. On the light to medium weight palate there was Dark cherry, spice and some stalkiness. An excellent new world Pinot, considered Australia’s best - it should be for the price, but I have had better Bass Phillip Reserves. The following night, stewed fruits- a rhubarb and savoury cherry note. I have one left which I will probably drink in a year or two.
Initially ungiving on the nose - latent but the power is there. With air a rose petal note developed. On the light to medium weight palate there was Dark cherry, spice and some stalkiness. An excellent new world Pinot, considered Australia’s best - it should be for the price, but I have had better Bass Phillip Reserves. The following night, stewed fruits- a rhubarb and savoury cherry note. I have one left which I will probably drink in a year or two.
Aug 6th, 2021Great depth of red fruits, Rose petals and Sous Bois on nose. A burnt toffee/varnishy note from the oak. The nose promises more than the palate initially but with air the palate had caught up and grown in volume which was medium bodied showing black cherry and Asian Spices with M+ Intensity and Length. I kept going back to this brilliant Burgundian nose. Opening this wine was unplanned because of a small wine fridge failure but it is always a highlight of the wine year opening a Bass Phillip Reserve - Australia’s Best Pinot Noir I believe.
Great depth of red fruits, Rose petals and Sous Bois on nose. A burnt toffee/varnishy note from the oak. The nose promises more than the palate initially but with air the palate had caught up and grown in volume which was medium bodied showing black cherry and Asian Spices with M+ Intensity and Length. I kept going back to this brilliant Burgundian nose. Opening this wine was unplanned because of a small wine fridge failure but it is always a highlight of the wine year opening a Bass Phillip Reserve - Australia’s Best Pinot Noir I believe.
May 30th, 2020