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Small Island Enso Coal River Pinot Noir 2025

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Small Island Enso Coal River Pinot Noir 2025
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Small Island Enso Coal River Pinot Noir 2025

SKU: SEPN202510 UCAU
5-10 Years
Regular price $80.00 $54.99 / bottle
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The Small Island Wines are making plenty of noise with only a small range

Dark cherries, cured meat and a dash of oak

100% Coal River fruit - premuim Tasmanian wine growing land

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Small Island Enso Coal River Pinot Noir 2025

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Tasting Notes

The Small Island Wines are making plenty of noise with only a small range.

Complex, rounded and very smooth, everything you could want from a Pinot Noir.

 

100% Coal River fruit
10% whole bunch
12 months on FF oak, 2nd year.

From one of Tasmania’s most exciting boutique producers, the 2025 Enzo Pinot Noir captures the elegance and depth of the Coal River Valley in a beautifully poised expression. Sourced exclusively from one of the best sites in the region, this wine balances purity with complexity.

A touch (10%) of whole bunch brings aromatic lift and structure, while 12 months in seasoned French oak rounds out the supple tannins and adds a gentle savoury thread. The result is a silky, seamless Pinot Noir showing ripe red cherry, forest floor, subtle spice and a long, refined finish. Complex, rounded, and incredibly smooth — this is everything you could want from top-tier Tasmanian Pinot.

 

Tasmanian-born James Broinowski completed his bachelor of viticulture and oenology at the University of Adelaide in ’13. He was faced with the same problem as many other graduates wanting to strike out on their own: cash.

While others in his predicament may have found the same solution, his was the first wine venture to successfully seek crowdfunding. The first year, he bought enough pinot noir from Glengarry in Tasmania’s north to make 2100 bottles of pinot noir (which won a gold medal at the Royal International Hobart Wine Show ’16) and 200 bottles of rosé.

The following year he was able to buy pinot from the highly rated Gala Estate on the East Coast, as well as a repeat order from Glengarry. In ’19, James added Saltwater River vineyard on the Tasmania Peninsula to his roster of premium single sites. The quality of the wines is seriously good, too.-JAMES HALLIDAY

Critic Scores

Highly perfumed and immediately captivating, the nose opens with wild strawberry, red cherry and cranberry layered with rose petal, exotic spice and delicate forest floor complexity. There’s a remarkable purity and cool-climate lift to the aromatics that gives the wine finesse from the outset. The palate is silky and finely detailed, delivering vibrant red berry fruit before delicate tannins and bright acidity guide the wine through a beautifully poised mid-palate. Layers of cherry, spice and subtle earthy savouriness unfold with impressive clarity and energy, while the texture remains elegant and flowing throughout. The finish is long, refined and incredibly persistent with lingering spice and mineral freshness.
Vino Masters Score: 96 / 100 ★★★★★ Elegant, detailed and beautiful complexity

Offering stunning fruit purity with elegant complexity, the wine shows dark cherry, warm spice, cured meat, fennel, and nutmeg characters. The palate exhibits excellent concentration and a plush mouthfeel, enhanced by a velvety texture and polished tannins. Harmonious and seamless with a persistent, graceful finish.

A really impressive pinot noir from Tasmania, with a wonderfully exotic, perfumed aroma and a thoroughly exquisite, beautifully integrated palate. The nose lifts with fresh, ripe strawberries and a little raspberry nuance, with subtle spices and a slightly truffle-like influence. The palate is where this wine comes to life, displaying layered complexity on a medium-to-light body, with wonderful, persistent length a feature. Superbly crafted and integrated, with oak, fruit, and tannin balance nigh on perfect. A classy example of Tasmanian pinot.

Vinification & Cultivation

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Vineyard Cultivation

Small Island Wines is a boutique Tasmanian label founded by winemaker James Broinowski, working with a deliberately small range from premium cool-climate sites. The Enso is sourced entirely from the Coal River Valley, one of Tasmania's most highly regarded growing areas for Pinot Noir, taking fruit from the Pooley home block and the neighbouring Cooinda vineyard. These east-coast sites sit on free-draining sandstone and dolerite-derived soils in a warm, dry, low-rainfall pocket that suits ripe yet structured Pinot. The 2025 season is captured in a fine-boned, aromatic style, with hand-picking and careful site selection preserving the purity and cool-climate lift that define the wine.

Vinification

Hand-picked Coal River fruit is destemmed with a portion, around ten per cent, retained as whole bunches to add perfume and gentle structure. Fermentation is carried out in open vessels, with the young wine then pressed and matured for roughly twelve months in French oak, largely seasoned second-year barrels rather than new wood, to round the supple tannins and add a savoury thread without overt oak flavour. The result is a silky, seamless Pinot Noir showing dark and red cherry, cured-meat savouriness, spice and a long, refined finish.

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