The single vineyard "Reserve" label will be changed from the 2008 vintage to "The Paringa." Medium ruby colored, the 2007 "Reserve" Pinot Noir offers ripe, intense black cherry and red currant aromas with some mocha, black truffles and a little fertile loam. Medium-full bodied with a medium level of grainy tannins and crisp acid, the fruit is showing more evolvement in the mouth than on the nose leading to a long earthy and dried mint finish. Drink it now to 2015. Paringa Estate in the Mornington Peninsula bears no relation whatsoever to the Paringa Estate in South Australia apart from sharing similar names. This vineyard and winery was established in the Red Hill sub-region of Mornington Peninsula in 1985 by Lyndsay McCall. A school teacher with a calling to make high quality wine in the then largely un-tapped Mornington region, Lyndsay had no formal winemaking training. Yet his ingenuity, creativity and drive allowed him to develop individual viticultural techniques (particularly his adapted Lyre trellis) that bring out the best from his unique site and clones. In spite of the vintage trials, he's made some very exciting recent releases.Paringa Estate does not currently have a USA importer, though exports to China, Japan, HK, Denmark, UK, Singapore and Taiwan.