2025 Island Belle Pinot Noir

6 x 750ml bottles

Tasting Notes
A single vineyard Pinot Noir grown on the Meadowbank vineyard in the Derwent Valley in southern Tasmania. Grapes for this wine were sourced from two patches of MV6 clone planted in 1989 and 2002 and Dijon clone 115 planted in 2019.

The 2025 growing season in southern Tasmania provided ideal conditions for flowering and fruit set, resulting in Pinot Noir crops being above the long term average.

Vine canopies were healthy producing fully ripe flavours at modest sugar levels while retaining a good balance of natural acidity. Bunches were clean, even in colour with crunchy berries and well ripened stalk and seed tannins. The grapes were hand picked on 27th March.

Individual parcels of fruit were fermented separately in three open fermenters with the inclusion of 25% of whole bunches and fermentation proceeding with only naturally occurring yeast and a total maceration period of three weeks. Fermenters were pressed off using a basket press with all of the pressed off wine going directly to seasoned French oak barriques for maturation over nine months.

The wine is beautifully poised with bright black cherry fruit on the nose and a textured palate which is layered with ripe berry fruits, stalky notes and soft tannins. Spicy, ripe fruit is balanced by fresh acidity which confers life and a long lingering finish.

Awarded GOLD Medal, 95 Points Class19, 2026 Royal Sydney Wine Show