Apogee 'Alto' Pinot Noir 2024

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$75.00

Bright ruby Pinot Noir with elegant structure and a full, supple mouthfeel. Red berry and summer pudding aromatics lead to a palate of blueberry and raspberry, finished with subtle toasty oak. Mild tannins and integrated oak create roundness and approachability now, while the wine's tannin and acid framework supports extended aging for up to 10 years. Expect the wine to fill out beautifully with aeration and develop complexity over the next 12 months. 

Body Scale

Delicate

Rounded

Bold

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Apogee 'Alto' Pinot Noir 2022 Tasmanian red wine

Apogee 'Alto' Pinot Noir 2024

$75.00

$75.00

Product specifications

Wine Maker

Andrew Pirie

Year

2024

Region

Pipers River & Pipers Brook

Vineyard

Apogee

Accolades

95 Points Halliday Wine Companion 2023

Aroma

Perfumes are red berry summer pudding and beautifully integrated oak.

Palette

A bright ruby, elegant and poised red wine, with a slippery and full mouthfeel, mild tannins and roundness. The palate finishes with blueberry and raspberry and mild, toasty oak. It fills out with aeration in the opened bottle and will dramatically flesh-out over next 12 months. For current drinking, but the tannin/acid framework will permit extended aging for 10 years.

Pairings

Pair with soft washed rind cheese, roast duck,mushroom risotto.

Wine Making

Normal rainfall in the first half of the season then progressively it became drier towards the key ripening
months of February/ March with a dry April, one of the driest on record. This made the last days of
ripening, which are critical for final flavour, very productive. The growing season October-April was one
of the warmest on record with a GST of 15.9˚C taking us to the limits of the cool-climate definition.

WINEMAKING STYLE
My objective is to present the highly aromatic qualities of the pinot noir grown at Apogee — aromatic red
cherry liqueur and raspberry: without excessive oak intrusion. The key structural component of the palate is
natural, cool-climate acidity supported with soft grape tannins. Traditional Burgundian methods are
employed including whole bunch, cold-soak, wild yeast, and aging in French oak barriques from coopers in
Saint Romain, Burgundy.

TASTING NOTE
A mild water stress was imposed on vines during the ripening period and it has endowed this wine with bright red-blue colour due to malvidin-3-0-glucoside,a pigment and antioxidant. The unusual feature of this
PN is the high % of 777 clone from Burgundy. This clone does not do well in the warmer drier parts of
Australia but, because of its low vigour, excels in the cool, humid locations like Lebrina/Pipers Brook and
produces lifted red fruit perfumes (raspberry/strawberry). Harvested on a perfect “end of season” date of
29th March 2024. 100% French oak

Meet the owners

Apogee is the culmination of nearly 50 years of Tasmanian winemaking experience from Dr Andrew Pirie, the man who founded Pipers Brook Vineyard back in 1974. At his 2-hectare single-vineyard site near Lebrina, Andrew focuses purely on traditional method sparkling wine using classic Champagne varieties, alongside small runs of table wine. It's a project built on decades of studying Tasmania's terroir, aiming to prove that Tasmanian sparkling wine can go head to head with the best in the world.

Andrew Pirie — Apogee

Pipers River & Pipers Brook

About the region

Established in 1974 by Dr Andrew Pirie, Pipers River and Pipers Brook is the region that put Tasmanian sparkling wine on the map. A climate that mirrors Champagne, hilly terrain, and some of Tasmania's most prestigious producers come together here to create sparkling wines of extraordinary finesse. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are just as at home, producing wines of real depth, complexity and cool climate elegance.

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