2016 Mount Mary Pinot Noir

Semi translucent dark red colour with a bright crimson red hue. Perfumed violet laced scents of ripe cherries, strawberries and faint anise blossom out of the glass followed by vanillin cedar and forest floor with spicy game end notes. Light across the palate but very expansive, ripe red to dark cherry and strawberry flavours have an elegant supple feel. Elements of vanillin cedar, subtle gamey forest floor characters and spice ensue. Velvet smooth yet structural tannins. Excellent power wave with a long spicy aftertaste of red and dark cherries, strawberries, gamey forest floor characters and spicy cedar.
Cellar 6-8 years.
Alc. 13.3%

Other Reviews…
Hand-picked, sorted via vibrating sorting tables, part crushed, part whole berry, 10-14 days on skins, matured for 11 months in French oak (27% new). Upper Yarra Valley complex texture, flavour and structure; dark berries/plums with pinot tannins woven through the fabric of the palate, length and balance up to the usual standards. A great achievement for the vintage. Drink by 2031.
97 points
James Halliday – Australian Wine Companion

Unlike many, I don’t think of Mount Mary as a Pinot producer, which is not to say they don’t make beautiful wines. I’ve had many. Anyway, warmer site, warmer vintage, excellent wine.
None of your sweet and sour fruit profile here, that I see in many a local Pinot Noir. Raspberry, cherry, strawberry, cedar and spice, fennel and mushrooms, roses too. Medium-bodied, at best, fresh red fruits, bright acidity, plenty of flavour, with graphite tannin keeping it long, firm and tense. Finish is perfumed, kind of autumnal, and very long with that beautiful tannin cleaning it up so nicely. It has reach, and personality. In short, it’s very good. I really like it. A lot. Drink 2020-2034+
96 points
Gary Walsh – The Wine Front