$92.00
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Region: Macedon Ranges
Grapes: Pinot Noir
First Glance: Juicy, Layered, Cherry, Complex
Acclaim: 93pts
The Wine:
Mari Magno is POCW's new, first level Pinot Noir label. This release, the wine is based on fruit from the ‘echalas’ (bush vine, picketed) block as well as other, neighbouring young vine plots. It has an extra year of aging because the team wanted to learn what this would lend a wine from these vines. Now we have the answer: it’s delicious! Expect a bright, juicy wine with layers of sweet fruit and plenty of aromatic complexity from its extra year in the bottle. Going forward, this will be a label that will allow POCW to experiment and also declassify plots that don’t make it into the top labels.
On the name: Mari Magno, or rough seas, comes from a quote by Lucretius in De Rerum Natura, where the great Roman poet and philosopher describes the pleasure that we might derive from witnessing the struggle of others (what the Germans call “schadenfreude”). Here then, is something beautiful that derived from our struggles at Place of Changing Winds. We invite you to take pleasure in it!
The Review:
Mike Bennie, The Wine Front - 93pts
"Delicious. Great drinking. Fine. A good lead of game meat, sappy cherry, green olive, alpine herbs, just-ripe strawberry and a general sense of softness, balance, resolve with its time in bottle and maturation generally. A silty feel to tannin, but relaxed, the wine generally so; long and luxurious in a casual kind of way. A little greenery here, so expect that, coolness and minty flickers. Enjoyable."