Sailor Seeks Horse Pinot Noir Dijon Clones 2023
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Variety: Pinot Noir
Country, Region: Australia, Tasmania, Huon Valley
‘114 and 777 clones – rose perfume combined with more subtle savoury notes, intensity, length, filigree and high-toned.’ Gilli Lipscombe.
Vintage 2023
‘If you’ve tasted wines from 2023 in Tasmania we think you’ll have been impressed. It really was an outstanding year – a lovely growing season with moderate yields for most. As with most years for us this was a low-yielding season coming in between 2.5-3t/ha depending on the variety and clone. We’d decided to graft over our MV6 to 115 and Abel in 2021 but some of the grafts didn’t take so we retrained some of the MV6 back to the cordon wire which has meant there is an interesting mix of clones in those rows now. There were also a few bunches from the new west-facing block in the estate Pinot and Chardonnay!’ Gilli and Paul Lipscombe, Sailor Seeks Horse.
This tiny vineyard is one of Australia’s most southerly located in the Huon valley in southern Tasmania. Paul and Gilli Lipscombe own the vineyard and make the wines and both have considerable vineyard and winemaking experience behind them including winning the Jimmy Watson trophy for Home Hill where they have been the winemakers in recent years. From working together in the Languedoc to New Zealand, Oregon and Margaret River they spent a lot of time researching and considering the best possible vineyard site with the aim to produce Australia’s best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay finally settling on this ideal north facing vineyard which is sheltered from the prevailing south-westerly winds. Best described as a warm site within a cool climate, the soil is free-draining quartz inflicted mudstone soil over clay. The vineyard is planted to a large variety of Dijon clones as well as numerous other clones planted by the previous owners and all vineyard work is done as organically as possible. In 2019 a new planting including some Trousseau has been made on the steep north-west facing slope beside the main vineyard block.