Giant Steps 2020 Pinot Noir, Applejack Vyd., Yarra Valley
Item Number: 17 65 335 20
Giant Steps 2020 Pinot Noir, Applejack Vyd., Yarra Valley
The #1 Wine of 2022!
Quick Taste
- Top 100 #1
- 95 Points!
- Single Vineyard
- "A thicket of red and blueberry fruit entwines with white pepper and other savory spices"
- "freshness, structure and elegance here that makes this a complete wine"
About Giant Steps 2020 Pinot Noir, Applejack Vyd., Yarra Valley
Wine Enthusiast Magazine #1 Wine of 2022!!!
When John Coltrane split with Miles Davis in the late 50's, he wasted little time releasing his visionary Giant Steps album. Winemaker (and equally successful brew master) Phil Sexton was inspired by the album and Coltrane’s foresight. When Sexton sold his Devil’s Lair vineyard in Margaret River to relocate and replant in the Yarra Valley, he named his wine in Coltrane’s honor. Sexton chose Yarra Valley because of his admiration for the long aging and fine boned wines produced by the new generation of wine growers reestablishing this historic wine region.
Giant Steps has forged a reputation for delivering some of Australia’s most consistent, over-performing, varietal wines reflected by its ongoing, praise-worthy global acclaim including being a six times Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries of the Year. Giant Steps focuses primarily on the distinctive expression of single vineyard sites in the Yarra Valley.
This wine is Pinot Noir sourced from the Applejack vineyard all the grapes were hand picked chilled overnight. Then the grapes were fermented in small oak fermenters and stainless steel open vats with indigenous yeasts. Certain parcels were allow to ferment naturally, All parcels were matured in French oak, 25% new for 8 months. The wine was bottled with no fining and no filtration.
Wine Enthusiast Magazine selected this as their #1 wine in their Top 100 for 2022. They scored it 95 points saying "Grown on clay-loam soils, with tough ironstone rocks running through, this wine is the most savory and brambly of Giant Steps's single-vineyard Pinots. A thicket of red and blueberry fruit entwines with white pepper and other savory spices, dried roses and meaty bass notes. In the mouth, fleshy fruit is again met with lovely spice, cinched by fine tannins. There's freshness, structure and elegance here that makes this a complete wine now, but one that could cellar until around 2032."
When John Coltrane split with Miles Davis in the late 50's, he wasted little time releasing his visionary Giant Steps album. Winemaker (and equally successful brew master) Phil Sexton was inspired by the album and Coltrane’s foresight. When Sexton sold his Devil’s Lair vineyard in Margaret River to relocate and replant in the Yarra Valley, he named his wine in Coltrane’s honor. Sexton chose Yarra Valley because of his admiration for the long aging and fine boned wines produced by the new generation of wine growers reestablishing this historic wine region.
Giant Steps has forged a reputation for delivering some of Australia’s most consistent, over-performing, varietal wines reflected by its ongoing, praise-worthy global acclaim including being a six times Wine & Spirits Top 100 Wineries of the Year. Giant Steps focuses primarily on the distinctive expression of single vineyard sites in the Yarra Valley.
This wine is Pinot Noir sourced from the Applejack vineyard all the grapes were hand picked chilled overnight. Then the grapes were fermented in small oak fermenters and stainless steel open vats with indigenous yeasts. Certain parcels were allow to ferment naturally, All parcels were matured in French oak, 25% new for 8 months. The wine was bottled with no fining and no filtration.
Wine Enthusiast Magazine selected this as their #1 wine in their Top 100 for 2022. They scored it 95 points saying "Grown on clay-loam soils, with tough ironstone rocks running through, this wine is the most savory and brambly of Giant Steps's single-vineyard Pinots. A thicket of red and blueberry fruit entwines with white pepper and other savory spices, dried roses and meaty bass notes. In the mouth, fleshy fruit is again met with lovely spice, cinched by fine tannins. There's freshness, structure and elegance here that makes this a complete wine now, but one that could cellar until around 2032."
Wine Details
- Alcohol % 14.0%
- Bottle Size 750 ml
- Wine Type Red
- Country Australia
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