2014 Mike Press Adelaide Hills Single Vineyard Pinot Noir Rosé

Ok, I can tell you, it was a grand day in wine drinking. I had finally sighted and bought and drank a Mike Press wine, he of the regular positioning on the annual James Halliday list of wines under $20. nurtured vineyard, more than four decades of experience, and a commitment to the consumer.
Mike Press has worked alongside Max Schubert at Penfolds, and at Seppelts, planting his own vineyard in 1998. The  Kenton Valley Vineyards has a cool climate, at an altitude of 500 metres above sea level. With the Rosé  made from a single vineyard Pinot Noir in the Adelaide Hills, what more could you want? Well, let me tell you. I found it in the fab-O Clunes Store & Cellars (far north coast, NSW), selected by the very knowing and canny Jared Dixon. The most beautiful colour (tomato, pink, blood, salmon, rust in combo). And the perfume! Chocolate, strawberries and rose. But on the palate: for me, a little tart, acidic, thin and watery. ALTHOUGH, as it warms, there's a kind of sour red jubeness almost mouth-fill – an Orange Chiffon Pie distinctiveness, a blood jam drinking. '[A] serious wine,' says the website. BUT a cutesy label of Mike in pink (as the Chardy is in yellow). So glad to make your acquaintance finally, Mike Press.