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Coola Hills Pinot Noir

Name: Coola Hills Pinot Noir - 2 Pound Street
Price: 14.95 GBP
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£14.95

Winemaker Xavier Goodridge has set out to create great value low intervention wines. And this is a beauty!

Mount Gambier is historically a dairy farm region but is rapidly becoming on of Australia’s most exciting wine growing regions. Volcanic soils and cooling breezes from the Southern Ocean.

This Pinot is light and juicy with loads of fresh red fruit flavours bursting out of the glass. In warm weather, this is great chilled down and is perfect with BBQ.

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