Awards & Reviews

95pts – Jeni Port, published 01 Aug 2020 (Halliday Wine Companion)

From a fab year in Tasmania comes a pinot noir that beautifully exemplifies the meaning of ‘brooding’ young red.  It’s a challenge to describe; you drink in large gulps of verbiage. Dark, dense, back-to-back black fruits, stewed rhubarb, truffle and leather, violets. It's both savoury and fruit-focused; red liquorice mixes it up with smokey clove and cigar box. Tannins run and run. And still so young Cork 13.5% alc  

Wine Details 

We have three unique blocks of Pinot Noir (II Giardino, La Roccia & Ruscello). The fruit from these blocks are specifically chosen for this wine as they produce fruit of the highest quality. This wine is medium weighted, with soft savoury tannins and well-balanced acidity. "A style in which I have always enjoyed making and drinking" - Steve Lubiana. The wine is only produced in exceptional years with the 2017 being only the 7th year of Sasso.

Low vigour. Low yields of 2.5 tonne per hectare.

Production 75doz

Variety: 100% Pinot Noir

Vineyard: Derwent Valley, single vineyard, elevation between 20m and 60m

Vineyard Management: 100% certified biodynamic, vertical shoot positioning, hand weeding/cultivation, chemical-free management under vine

Geology: Mix of three terroirs – grey gravelly loam over clay, mix of black clay & grey gravelly silt with clay under and classic terra rossa of red clay loam over marl limestone

Cellaring 10-15 years