William Downie Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir (2010)

"This is a very different wine to the Gippsland pinot of the same year – though it will age similarly. It’s not ready to drink now. For the first couple of hours (after opening) it tastes overly acidic, not quite to the point of it being unpleasant – but not so that you want to drink more. Given air though it blossoms nicely, offering rounds of spice and fresh ripe plum, dried herbs and boysenberry. Tannin creeps up on you; though it always feels tight. Oak is coffeed but mostly unobtrusive. I tasted this alongside the Gippsland pinot of the same year and the Gippsland pipped it; but they both will be good bets in a couple of years."
Campbell Mattinson