Unsurprisingly the 2011 Ten Minutes by Tractor Pinots seem to have had a tougher time of it than the Chardonnays from the same vintage.
Fruit takes a back seat here. It smells and tastes of decaying leaf matter, earth, cranberries and maraschino cherries with a distracting estuarine note. Some crunchy tannin and tea leaf with a suggestion of meatiness. Speaks of the vintage. 87
Region: Mornington Peninsula
Alcohol: 13.0%
Closure: Screwcap
Price: $46
Tasted: November 2013
Hmm, Mike Bennie gives this 94/100 .
I haven’t read MB’s review just yet but I lose no sleep over differences of opinion when it comes to wine. That estuary character bothered me and didn’t seem at peace with the wine, thus my score. That doesn’t make me right or MB wrong. I don’t see my role as agreeing with or replicating other’s scores (or tasting notes).
At my workplace, this scored a highly commendable 88, so we were much closer to this score. Had to be just kept out of silver given a couple of wines that went on to be best in the class. The ’11 winner that day was an effortless GDF Reveur.
Would love to taste more Glaetzer-Dixon wines. The estuary/swampy note that I saw in this seemed more prominent on the second day whereas I found the single vineyard 2011 McCutcheon Pinot just kept improving over three days. I was actually more concerned that I’d underrated it.