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A great wine for those on a budget. I had this last night was very impressed, great value for a sub $50 pinot.

My tip:

The best sub $30 Pinot Noir going around (or not going around as you would very probably not have heard of it) is from a Tasmanian producer, Palmara. The 2002 is $22.50.

I too like the Coldstream Hills Pinot Noir, usually, I actually did not think much of the 2002 but suspect I did not give it enough chance at the Coldstream Hills CD a few months ago, but believe the Palmara blows it out of the water!

Palmara is just up the road from Meadowbank and its Pinot Noir is at least equal to Meadowbank's Henry James, and many tens of dollars per bottle less.

Adair

Have you tried the Leabrook Estate Pinot Adair?

It's from the Adelaide Hills, and it's my favourite at the moment - strawberries and cream when young, savoury smoky bacon with bottle age, not too stalky or leafy, and all under $25

Cheers
Ian

Where does one buy the Palmara from?

Where does one buy the Palmara from?

n4sir wrote:Have you tried the Leabrook Estate Pinot Adair?

It's from the Adelaide Hills, and it's my favourite at the moment - strawberries and cream when young, savoury smoky bacon with bottle age, not too stalky or leafy, and all under $25

Cheers
Ian

Excellent. We are all now revealing our little Pinot Noir secrets. To be honest, I thought twice (2 more than usual) about mentioning Palmara.

Ian, no I have not tried the Leabrook Estate Pinot, but I will the next time I am in Adelaide. It should not be that long away.

These smaller wineries pay a lot more attention to their "cheaper" wines (relative to larger wineries with wines of similar price - not with regard to wines in their own range, although that may be the case as well) and I suspect this really pays dividends when the wine in question is a Pinot Noir... but maybe we just don't like mentioning our little favourites.

Just quickly, back to the Palmara, I served it blind to a reasonably wine-knowledgeable friend and his first comment was "This is from New Zealand!"

Adair

Anonymous wrote:Where does one buy the Palmara from?

Too small and cheap for distributors - only from the winery, which fortunately is only 15 minutes from Hobart airport! ... but they do have telephones in Tasmania now (Sorry for that)

Adair