Holyman Project X Pinot Noir 2022

100% whole bunch applied to the best small batch of fruit on their Tamar River vineyard. Power with depth: spice and savoury layers blending with dark black cherry and black currant. It possesses a long firm finish with ample tannin for aging. Excellent. - Ian Cook, FWC.

The 2022 season was a warm one for us, with the warm days moving into warm nights which kept the fruit ripening. Our earliest start ever! The fruit for the Project X comes from a block we like to call Boris. It is all hand picked and our well trained pickers do all our fruit sorting in the vineyard and for this wine they only select perfect bunches with well lignified stalks allowing us to make this 100% whole bunch, 100% new oak wine. One of the things I love about our whole bunch wines is that they always have less colour than our other wines and the fruit characters are always in the brighter fruits. Fresh Raspberry and Strawberry on the nose. The palate is clean and structured with the usual hints of Campari, with the underlying intensity of the stalk tannin. One to be cellared for many years. It was bottled without being fined or filtered. Joe Holyman.