DCB Wine
Chris Bendle is a boutique Yarra Valley producer of small batch premium Chardonnay and Pinot Noir aiming for excellent value above all.
Read about DCB Wine’s Pinot Noir below.
DCB website.
DCB Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2020
Vineyard:
A Block, Lone Star Creek Vineyard
2018 Chardonnay
Clone: A Block Pinot Noir
MV6 – Vines planted in 2007 Sourced solely from Lone Star Creek Vineyard, Upper Yarra Valley. A Block is planted on red volcanic clay.
Fruit picked on 6 March, 2019
Receival analysis: Baume: 13.0, pH: 3.35
Winemaking:
Winemaker: Chris Bendle
Process: Left to chill for 24 hours, then crushed and into a stainless steel fermenter.
Yeast – After 2 days chilling, the grapes were inoculated with RC212 yeast and ferment commenced.
MLF % – 100%
Maturation – The wine was pressed to barrel (20% new) to complete MLF after approx. 3 weeks on skins. No additions were made until SO2 was added at the end of June.
The wine was racked to tank in January, racked again and bottled. No filtering.
Preservatives – SO2 at bottling
Vegan friendly: Yes.
13.5% alc/vol; Approx. 8 standard drinks
reviews:
Campbell Mattison, The Wine Front: 94 points.
From the oldest vines on the Lone Star Creek vineyard at Woori Yallock.
What we have here is a brooding pinot noir that may well fail to communicate its real strengths if you open it now but which has an excellent cellaring future ahead. This is a wine with presence if not so much prettiness; a wine rolled with tannin and tucked with spice; a wine with red liquorice and chicory riven into red cherry and cedar. It requires some coaxing, let’s say, but its quality is clear and in any case its charms fan out with air.