$70.00
Mornington Peninsula Merricks VIC
I was looking through the cellar for a Friday night drink, when I spotted this pinot noir by George Mihaly, a slightly mad scientist turned winemaker devoted to making some of the very best Pinot Noir to come from the Mornington Peninsula I have ever tasted.
Anyway, back to the story, at 7 years of age for me this wine had everything I was looking for.
In the glass, the wine was dark with even darker dusty red fruit on the nose.
In the mouth, the wine had a little old-world savoury fruit about it that I loved, with a fine line of acid.
As it opened in the decanter it developed wafting hints of red rose petals and earth adding complexity to the wine.
For me, I am unsure what direction further bottle ageing would take this particular bottle, as I thought it to be balanced between fruit and acid to the point of perfection now.
What sets Paradigm Hill – Les Cinq apart from other Mornington Peninsula Pinots, is its individuality, it’s not like the rest, in the fact with a little age I don’t see a lot of Mornington traits about it at all.
I enjoyed this Pinot with lamb cutlets and mashed potatoes with pan fried Roma tomatoes topped with freshly cracked black pepper.
The Rot has set in
Michael Lillis
If you look around, you can find back vintages of Paradigm Hill Pinot Noirs in good bottle shops and on the wine list of fine restaurants around Melbourne.
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once documented life is far too short to drink bad wine. And the old bugger was right.
