Rain Pinot Noir
2020
Region
Australia › Gippsland
Type
red · still
Grapes
Pinot Noir
Alcohol
12%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
0 g/L
Tasting Notes
In my book, Patrick Sullivan makes more delicate and quaffable wines. This one is a bit too crazy. Aromatic and youthful bouquet of bitter herbs, brett, and spoiled fruits. Medium-light body, dry and fresh mouthfeel with low tannin. It is well balanced and flavourful. Nice mineral finish with a bit disturbing bitterness. A wine with character, a rebellious one, for sure.
About
The 2020 season was the first of three very wet winters, which were followed by wet springs and, at this time, two mild summers. Though yields have been low, they've delivered some very detailed, precise and complex wines, which is no small achievement. There's no doubt that these wines are the product of the extraordinarily long ripening periods we've experienced in recent times and though the 2020 harvest was extremely small -- with tiny quantities of wine being made -- both Megan and I are very proud of this release and know that you'll find plenty to love too.
Patrick Sullivan
Rain is made of 100% Pinot Noir from 30 years old vines of Maffra vineyard on volcanic soils. The hand-harvested grapes are gently pressed by a pneumatic press. Juice is left to settle, then racked off its lees into barrels to ferment. Alcoholic fermentation takes two weeks, followed by malolactic fermentation in barrels. The wine spends 12 months in French oak barrels, 30% of which is new oak.
