St Hubert’s Pinot Noir 2012 (Yarra Valley, Vic)
Source:Tasting
www.sthuberts.com.au
I always feel rude handing out an average score to a wine that may well become great.
Yet the retort to that sentiment is also a simple one – great wines are nearly always great from their first inception. Or at least you can see hints of greatness. Little hints with this Pinot.
Sweet fruited and mono-dimensional, the light palate looking simple and barely-left-the-barrel oak forward. Why this was released now is beyond me – its a minimum of 12 months off any sort of drinkability, the fruit and oak simply too obvious and simple. It will get better, but otherwise a Pinot milkshake at present.
Drink: 2014-2018
Score: 15.5/20 85/100+
Would I buy it? Not yet.
Buy online: Cracka Wines, Dan Murphy’s
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4 Comments
So how come Halliday gave this 95/100?
Clearly James liked it much more than me. Not unusual for James to be scoring things higher than everyone though
Have you revisited this wine??
Yes. Tried Recently and much better. Still too much oak, but settling in (finally).