Shaw + Smith 2020 Pinot Noir Vinification: Hand picked and sorted. Combination of Style: Beginnings: Established Delicate, fragrant, whole berry and whole by winemaker Martin Shaw light to medium bodied but bunch fermentation. Fifteen and Master of Wine with deceptive power, silky days on skins. Matured in Michael Hill Smith in 1989. tannins and medium term French oak, majority ageing potential. Winemakers: puncheons. Adam Wadewitz and The 2020 vintage was very Background: Older vines, Martin Shaw. low yielding, which resulted sorting tables, small batch in great concentration. Vision: To make exciting, open fermenters, or just The cool ripening conditions refined wines exclusively more insight into the produced Pinot Noir with from the Hills that capricious nature of Pinot intense red and blue fruit reflect our sites and climate. Noir. Whatever the reason, flavours, and excellent we think our Shaw + Smith Vineyards: Shaw + Smith balance. own two vineyards in the Pinot Noir continues to get Season: The vintage threw , at better and better. Our first up a number of challenges, and Lenswood, totalling release was in 2007. including frosts, poor fruit 55 hectares. The vineyards Serve: Enjoy in a large red set and fires. That said, the are planted to varieties that wine glass, with some weather during the ripening perform particularly well charcuterie. Ideal period was extremely kind. in the region, namely temperature is 16-18°C. February saw perfectly even Sauvignon Blanc, ripening and resulted in Cellar potential: Now until Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, grapes that were small, 2026. and Shiraz. packed with flavour, and Winery & Tasting Room: with higher than normal 136 Jones Rd acidity. Balhannah SA 5242 Source: In 2020, our Pinot Phone +61 8 8398 0500 Noir is mainly from fruit www.shawandsmith.com grown in , from a vineyard that is high and cool, and makes beautifully perfumed wines.

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Perfumed and delicate with silky tannins. Eden Valley The Adelaide Hills Barossa Valley Although grapes were planted as early as 1839, it was not until 1979 that viticulture was revived AD in the Adelaide Hills. Over the last three decades the Adelaide Hills has built a reputation as one of ’s most exciting ELA cool climate regions producing distinctive, refined and elegant wines. Today there are more than 100 producers and over IDE 3800 hectares of vineyards. Located in the Mt Lofty Ranges thirty minutes Lenswood drive from Adelaide, ADELAIDE Piccadilly the elevation varies from HIL around 400 metres at Mt Lofty Macclesfield, to 600 metres Balhannah at Piccadilly and over 710 Shaw + Smith Winery & metres at Mt Lofty. The Tasting Room region is strikingly beautiful LS with its patchwork of vineyards, forests, beef and dairy farms, apple and pear orchards. The Adelaide Hills is bordered to the North by the Barossa and Eden Valleys with McLaren Vale to the South. Due to its altitude, the Adelaide Hills is significantly cooler than these more traditional regions. McLaren Vale

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