Quealy Winemakers Campbell & Christine Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023 (6 Bottles) Mornington Peninsula

by Fine Wine Cellars

$267.00 GST Included

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With Musk Creek and Tussie Mussie, this site completes the trio of Quealy’s premier-league, leased Mornington Peninsula vineyards. Established by doctors Campbell and Christine Penfold in 1994, it mainly features the MV6 clone. Some 114 and 115 were also planted, taking advantage of the premium clones that became available around the same time.

Located on the coastal plain, it sits just 30 metres above sea level behind Balnarring village. It’s a dry-grown, well-exposed, north-facing site with alluvial clay and red soils washed down from Red Hill. Tom McCarthy tells us it produces “gorgeous, small bunches of glossy Pinot Noir”. Stylistically, Campbell & Christine sits at the more concentrated, muscular end of the Pinot spectrum.

This site is famed for producing powerful fruit, and the paltry yields in 2023 have heightened this further. With that in mind, Tom took a mindful, gentle approach in the cellar. The fruit came off the vine in pristine condition on 23rd March and was destemmed to mostly small vats for fermentation, with a small portion fermented in barrel.

The wine was pressed to barrel after 21 days for 14 months’ maturation in hogsheads, 25% of which were new. The wine was then bottled unfined and unfiltered in June 2024. This has serious flavour–juicy red fruits with some black cherry depth, earth, spice and a tea leaf/floral lift. It’s supple and seductive, with svelte structure and fine, fresh lines. Great length, too.

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Quealy Winery

Exclusively grown on our winery vineyard, the grapes are picked in the first few days of March when the grapes are a hot pink colour and still rich with acid. Whole bunch pressed with a low yield per ton captures the delicacy; zero sulphur through the process of yeast and malolactic fermentation. Another month stirred on lees and then sulphur in June, more racking and then into bottle in July 2019.

Quealy Vineyard
We care for this vineyard with organic sprays and zero herbicide. It’s surrounded by bush and clearly a fertile ground for the biomass. The vineyard is crawling with insects; beetles, snails, moths, earwigs and we don’t want them all but we have learnt to live together. We like to hurry the ripeness so we harvest before the party starts; it’s where the vineyard dictates the style.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Winery rating “Kathleen Quealy and Kevin McCarthy were among the early waves of winemakers on the Mornington Peninsula. They challenged the status quo – most publicly by introducing Mornington Peninsula pinot gris/grigio (with great success). Behind this was improvement and diversification in site selection, plus viticulture and winemaking techniques that allowed their business to grow significantly.” James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion

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