A Plethora of Peninsula Pinot

[Rory]

Is it Plethora? or a gaggle? or a bunch?

Anyhoo, first two on Sunday, the others on Monday night for a 2010 reflection.

2008 Paringa Estate Reserve Pinot.Typical of the marque, big, rounded darker fruits, yet still looking good for its age.
2009 Hurley Garamond.Due to the warmer vintage, quite powerfull, but still maintaining great flavours and balance.

As for the next lot of wines, all drank at a dinner cooked especially for it by local restaurant Volpino, all the wins looked in excellent form, not a dud in there. The level of excellence suprised us all, as was the freshness. All were served blind, participants getting the list of wines, but having to guess each as we went. all revealed only at end.

2009 Tyrells Vat 1 Semillon.Oh yeah baby! looking more like a 5 year old white wine, not 11 years old. Old? hardly, great fruit weight, great acid, long.
2010 Eldridge Estate. Ethereal, elegant, silky and long. Sexy.
2010 Hurley Garamond.Wow! This wine was decanted into another screwcap bottle almost 2 hours before service to fool those who would pick it due to cork closure. Not only did it blow everyone away on service, nut it was a chameleon throughout the night as it kept morphing into another wow state. An amazing Peninsula Pinot.
2010 Moorooduc The Duck. For most, an easyish pick. Muddy, dark and powerfull, but not big.
2010 Merricks Estate Close Planted. Such a sweet core of beautifull fruit, complex, long.
2010 Hurley Loadstone. Velvety, sweet fruit core. Silky and long.
2010 Paradigm Hill L'Amis Sage.Complex, structured, long, very burgundian in its more savoury notes.
2010 Mongeard Mugneret Grand Echezaux, thrown in for a good measure of trickery! Looked so young, balance, harmony, years and years ahead of it.

We finished with a 2017 Pinot from Chablis! Apologies, i cant remember the producer. But for a retail of $35 Australian, it was very good value.

[Dragzworthy]

I really like Paradigm Hill and Paringa. Have you tried Stonier? It's a bit lighter and red fruit drive (contrast with Paringa and moorooduc estate for example) but a very nice well put together pinot.