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Pinot Noir

While we continue to expand our collection of Burgundies, more and more new-world winemakers are coming to terms with this challenging variety. Australians have identified Geelong, the Yarra Valley and the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria as suited to premium Pinot Noir. More recently, Tasmania has shot up the ranks. Mount Mary, Farr Rising and Tolpuddle are names to seek out. New Zealand is also producing some compelling, full bodied wines. Look for regions like Martinborough, Marlborough and Central Otago. Browse our top rated Pinot wines here.

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2019 Nintingbool Vineyard Pinot Noir

Ballarat, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$29. 99
Bottle
$359.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2025-2030)

ABV: 13.6%

Closure: Stelvin

A light, elegant, red fruited Pinot with infusions of mint running thru it.
Matured in French oak barrels. Dark red core with black toned edges and a light red hue. Red cherry and strawberry scents infused with mint mix with some subtle earthy dried clove like notes and spice. Vibrant cherry and winter strawberry fruits are elegantly layered across the light palate with notions of earth, mint and spice in the background. Slightly grainy, graphite like tannins with a fresh spicy red fruited finish of medium length.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.6%

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2017 Nintingbool Vineyard Pinot Noir

Ballarat, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$32. 99
Bottle
$395.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 3 Years (2024-2027)

ABV: 14%

Closure: Stelvin

Matured in French oak barrels. Dark red colour with black shaded edges and a red to dark red hue. Pronounced black cherry and anise aromas are interwoven with dark plum, earth, vanillin cedar and spice accents. Rich fleshy dark cherry, dark plum and anise flavours are supplely cast across the mid weighted palate. Earthy vanillin cedar, dried herb and spice elements sit underneath. Excellent power with fine grained tannins extending through the ripe medium to long finish.
Drink over the next 2-3 years.
Alc. 14%
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MV6 clone, fermented in small batches with mix of cultured and wild yeast, maturation in French oak (new-6 yo) for 10 months. The vineyard at Smythes Creek, west of Ballarat, is on 'harsh' goldfields soil and at a decent elevation of 425m. It delivers a sinewy, mineral-edged pinot noir, a style increasingly associated with the Ballarat region. Red fruits inhabit the wine, redcurrant, sour cherry, cranberry with nettle, weed, forest floor. The fine herbal line is maintained on the palate. It's a cold climate, firm expression unlike most pinots you taste. Drink by 2026.
93 Points
Jeni Port – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

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2024 Nomads Garden Glenmore Springs Vineyard Pinot Noir

King Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$23. 99
Bottle
$287.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

ABV: 13.4%

Closure: Stelvin

An uncomplicated, light juicy Pinot that has a vibrant feel.
Semi translucent ruby red colour with a light red hue. Expressive red cherry and raspberry scents are trailed by some fresh herb, delicate forest floor and spice notes. Light and vibrant in its feel across the palate, juicy red cherry and red raspberry fruits overlay a fresh herb infused earthy mineral and spice background. Bright acidity and fine grained tannins with a fresh red fruited finish that has plenty of energy.
Alc. 13.4%

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2024 Oakridge Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$29. 99
Bottle
$359.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2025-2031)

ABV: 13%

Closure: Stelvin

Light, fresh and supple with a savoury finish.
Semi translucent bright red to dark red colour with a light red hue. Fragrant red cherry, violet and strawberry scents are complimented by hints of dried herbs, rhubarb, forest floor and spice. Light in body, the palate is both fresh and supple in its feel featuring red cherry and winter strawberry fruits over a delicate rhubarb, forest floor and spicy dried herb background. Good energy with elegant, fine grained tannins. Finishes fresh and savoury.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13%

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2019 Octtava Pinot Noir

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$39. 99
Bottle
$479.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2022-2027)

ABV: 14%

Closure: Stelvin

Matured for 10 months in a mix of old and new French oak barriques. Deep black dark red colour with a dark red hue. The nose features elevated dark to black cherry and anise aromas over toasty cedar, dried herb and spicy earth notes. Rich black cherry, anise and black plum fruits show ample intensity with spicy cedar, scorched earth and dried herb characters in the background. Plenty of volume and power here with fine grained tannins and a long fleshy aftertaste.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 14%

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2019 Olivier Leflaive Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge

Burgundy, FRANCE
$120. 00
Bottle
$1440.00 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2024-2029)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Diam Cork

Sourced from 36 year old vines with maturation taking place in French oak (30% new) for a period of 12 months.
Deep dark red core with black shaded edges and a red to dark red hue. Elevated red to dark cherry aromas mingle with earth, spicy cedar, subtle dried herb and delicate leather notes. Elegant and slightly rustic, the palate features generous spicy dark cherry flavours over an earth, old cedar, dried herb and rhubarb background. Dryish, grainy tannins finishing savoury and spicy with good freshness.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2020 Opawa Pinot Noir

Marlborough, NEW ZEALAND
$27. 99
Bottle
$335.88 Dozen

Minimum 6 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 3 Years (2024-2027)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent dark red core with black toned edges and a red hue. Spicy dark cherry aromas infused with a mix of graphite and dried herbs emerge followed by some rhubarb and earth notes. Light in weight with a tense feel, dark cherry and rhubarb flavours meld into an earthy dried herb and woodsy spice back drop. Dryish finish with chalky tannins and bright acidity creating a tight structure. Concludes somewhat lean.
Drink over the next 2-3 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2023 Pacha mama Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$32. 99
Bottle
$395.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2024-2030)

ABV: 14%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent red to dark red colour with black toned edges and a light red hue. Aromas of violets, red to dark cherries, forest floor and fresh herbs escape from the glass with some spicy cedar notes also evident. Delicious spicy red to dark cherry, strawberry and rhubarb flavours show terrific drive across the palate. Notions of forest floor, subtle dried herbs and cedar are interwoven through the back half. Finely grained tannins finishing long, spicy and savoury.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 14%
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A fresh and vibrant Pinot from the Upper Yarra Valley, specfifically the Full Moon Vineyard which was planted in 2001. Maturation is in French oak, a portion of it new. The wine is the colour of liqueur cherry, while the aromas include strawberries, spices, herbs, bay leaves, and cassis. A ripe style with attractive maraschino cherry notes, this is well focused, seamless and exhibits red fruits throughout. Very fine tannins, bright acidity, and a lingering finish. Enjoy this any time over the next three to five years. Drink 2024-2029.
92 Points
Ken Gargett – WinePilot.com

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2021 Palliser Estate Pinot Noir

Martinborough, NEW ZEALAND
$49. 99
Bottle
$599.88 Dozen

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

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Aromas of white pepper, strawberries, cherries and crushed thyme. Medium- to full-bodied with silky tannins. Bright acidity and berry tang with a vanilla cream finish. Drink now. Screw cap.
90 Points
JamesSuckling.com

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2022 Palliser Estate Pinot Noir

Martinborough, NEW ZEALAND
$52. 99
Bottle
$635.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2025-2031)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Rich, fleshy mid weighted Pinot.
Matured in French oak for 10 months. Dark red core with black shaded edges and a light red to red hue. Intense ripe dark to black cherry, strawberry and anise aromas intermix with dried herb, bramble, subtle forest floor and spice notes. Rich and fleshy the mid weighted palate features juicy dark to black cherry, anise, strawberry and plum flavours with dried herb, brambly cedar and spice elements the undercard. Outstanding power and concentration with velvet smooth tannins and a long, sumptuous conclusion.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2022 Nicks Secret Martinborough Pinot Noir

Martinborough, NEW ZEALAND
$19. 99
Bottle
$239.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2024-2028)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

The Nicks Secret Martinborough collection are produced by one of the pioneers and most renowned wineries of the region who are synonymous with producing world class Pinot Noir. Normally selling for anything up to $40 per bottle, this delicious Pinot delivers fantastic bang for your buck especially when one takes into account the difficulties of finding a decent $20 Pinot to begin with.
A rich and beautifully polished Martinborough Pinot which delivers out of the box value.
Matured for 10 months in French oak barrels. Semi translucent red to dark red core with black tinged edges and a light red hue. Unfurling from the glass with plenty of intensity are alluring dark cherry, violet, ripe strawberry and anise aromas followed by hints of forest floor, dried herbs and spice. Incredibly moreish and supple in texture the palate serves up dark cherry, anise and strawberry flavours which meld into a spicy cedar, dried herb and subtle forest floor back drop. Expansive and powerful it possesses silky smooth tannins, finishing long and spicy.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 13.5%
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Sweetly fruited and spicy at the same time, the enticing bouquet shows dark cherry, dried herb, warm mushroom and toasted nut aromas. The richly textured palate delivers expansive mouthfeel together with refined texture and beautifully infused tannins, finishing splendidly long and comforting. At its best: now to 2032.
94 points
Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

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2021 Palliser Estate Hua Nui Vineyard Pinot Noir

Martinborough, NEW ZEALAND
$110. 00
Bottle
$1320.00 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2023-2029)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Matured for 10 months in French oak barrels with 49% whole bunch inclusion. Deep dark red core with black toned edges and a dark red hue. Potent aromatics of dark cherries, violets, dark plums and anise engulf the nostrils with some toasty cedar, earth and spicy dried herb notes also evident. Rich and fleshy textured the palate is flooded with dark to black cherry, dark plum and anise flavours. Spicy cedar, scorched earth and dried herb elements lurk beneath. Excellent power wave and velvety tannins. Concludes long, supple and impressively deep.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%
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After cool, damp weather at flowering, the 2021 vintage in Martinborough was never going to be a bountiful one, but the second half of the season was regarded by many growers as near perfect and the quality of what was finally harvested in this North Island Pinot-Noir hotspot was enviable. Deep scarlet in colour, the aromas of this forthright, vital Pinot evoke both raspberries and plums. On the palate, too, the wine is energetic and exuberant; its structure derives from that force of fruit, darkened by oak and lifted by ripe, fruit-dense acidity rather than tannins. The overall mouthfeel, thus, is smooth rather than grippy, despite this impressive depth of fruit. This is assured Pinot Noir from one of the southern hemisphere’s reference zones.
97 Points
Decanter World Wine Awards 2023

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2017 Peay Vineyards Estate Ama Pinot Noir

California, UNITED STATES
$145. 00
Bottle
$1740.00 Dozen

ABV: 13.4%

Closure: Cork

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Medium ruby-purple, the 2017 Estate Pinot Noir Ama bursts with a deep well of aromas: cranberry sauce, burnt orange peel and aniseed are accented by notes of oolong tea, forest floor, iron and iodine. In the mouth, it's medium-bodied, broody, concentrated and layered with a long, flavorful finish. This is a bigger, bolder and spicier version of Ama that offers immediate drinkability straight out of the gate with its bright freshness and bold flavors, but will age gracefully in the cellar for another 5-7 years. 550 cases were made.
95 points
Erin Brooks - Wine Advocate (Aug 2020)

A brilliant wine, Peay's 2017 Pinot Noir Estate Ama offers an explosion of sweet red/purplish berry fruit, floral notes and spice, all with a hint of blood orange-infused acidity that gives the wine vibrancy. The 2017 Ama is wonderfully bold and luscious, and yet remains light on its feet. A striking wine from Peay.
95 points
Antonio Galloni - Vinous

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2017 Peay Vineyards Estate Scallop Shelf Pinot Noir

California, UNITED STATES
$155. 00
Bottle
$1860.00 Dozen

ABV: 13%

Closure: Cork

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The 2017 Estate Pinot Noir Scallop Shelf is a beautiful wine with delicate aromas of fragrant earth, bergamot, saline, iodine and aniseed. In the mouth, it’s medium-bodied, uber silky and concentrated with broody, spicy, fruits, seamless freshness and a very long, layered finish. 550 cases produced.
95+ points
Erin Brooks - Wine Advocate (Aug 2020)

The 2017 Pinot Noir Estate Scallop Shelf is distinguished by its bright, focused personality and energy. As it often is, the Scallop Shelf is a wine of reserve and tension, showing plenty of savory and mineral character and less overt fruit than some of the other wines in the range. The 2017 is likely to require at least a few years to come into its own, but it is super-impressive.
95 points
Antonio Galloni - Vinous

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2022 Pegasus Bay Pinot Noir

Waipara Valley, NEW ZEALAND
$69. 99
Bottle
$839.88 Dozen

Minimum 6 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2025-2031)

ABV: 13%

Closure: Stelvin

Rich and supple on entry with a graphite like feel coming through on the lengthy finish.
Fermented with 40% whole bunches and matured in French oak barriques (30% new) for a period of 15 months. Dark red core with black toned edges and a red to dark red hue. Intense black cherry and dark plum aromas infused with a mix of dried clove and graphite are trailed by some stalky cedar, bramble and spice notes. Making a rich, supple entrance are lush black cherry and anise flavours which overlay a smoked meat, spicy cedar, clove and bramble back drop. Fine, slightly grainy tannins with a graphite like feel coming through on the lengthy finish.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13%
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I've long loved the pinot noirs from Pegasus Bay. There's a minerally vibe that always draws me in. Complex and meaty with herbal and floral nuance that keeps shifting in the glass, keeping the old schnozz on its toes. The interplay of fruit, acidity and tannin is fascinating; kinetic and sinewy with a gentle struck-flint reduction lending added complexity as the wine slowly trails off. Drink by 2036.
94 Points
Dave Brookes – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion
Dried strawberries, cedar and fresh rose petals come through clearly. Some citrus. Medium-bodied with firm, creamy tannins and a juicy finish. Lovely texture and fruit to this. Really nice to drink now but better in three or four years. Screw cap.
94 Points
JamesSuckling.com

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2022 Pencarrow Pinot Noir

Martinborough, NEW ZEALAND
$27. 99
Bottle
$335.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 3 Years (2024-2027)

ABV: 14%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent dark red core with black toned edges and a light red to brick red hue. Jumping from the glass are fragrant scents of violet, dark cherry and rhubarb which are complimented by hints of anise, dried herbs and spicy bramble notes. Rich juicy dark cherry, strawberry and rhubarb fruits are lent complexity by some brambly cedar, forest floor and spicy dried herb characters. Supple textural feel and velvety tannins with a more than ample power wave. The long savory conclusion showing plenty of spice.
Drink over the next 2-3 years.
Alc. 14%

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2022 Peregrine Pinot Noir

Central Otago, NEW ZEALAND
$59. 99
Bottle
$719.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2025-2031)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

A rich, lush mid weighted Pinot that’s powerful and supple.
Certified organic with maturation taking place in French oak for a period of 10 months. Dark red core with black shaded edges and a red to dark red hue. Intense dark cherry, strawberry, dark plum and anise aromas are complimented by hints of violet, toasty cedar, dried herbs and spice. Rich and lush the mid weighted palate is flooded with spicy dark to black cherry, ripe strawberry, anise and dark plum fruits. Subtle toasty cedar, earth and dried herb elements form in the background. Boasting magnificent power, it has a supple feel, silky smooth tannins and a long seductive finish.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2022 Peregrine Saddleback Pinot Noir

Central Otago, NEW ZEALAND
$34. 99
Bottle
$419.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2025-2029)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

A richly fruited, mid weighted Pinot Noir.
Dark red core with black toned edges and a red tinged hue. Spicy dark to black cherry, anise and ripe strawberry aromas are drawn through the nostrils trailed by some toasty oak and dried herb notes. Rich black cherry, anise and dark plum fruits carry ample flesh across the mid weighted palate with toasty oak, earth and spicy dried herb characters ensuing. Grainy tannins lend a gentle chewiness to the ripe mid length finish.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2022 Picardy Pinot Noir

Pemberton, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
$69. 99
Bottle
$839.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 8 Years (2025-2033)

ABV: 14%

Closure: Cork

Laden with juicy red to dark fruits that carry a supple flow across the palate.
Red to dark red core with black shaded edges and a light red hue. Perfumed like aromas of violet, red to dark cherry and strawberry blossom out of the glass with hints of anise, fresh herbs and spicy vanillin cedar also evident. Delicious red to dark cherry and strawberry fruits are both juicy and supple in their flow across the palate. Some anise, infusions of fresh herbs, forest floor and spicy cedar the undercard. Excellent power with polished tannins and a long fleshy finish.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 14%
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This is a portrait of the vineyard and a picture of juicy, ripe, perfectly formed berries. 11 clones are now producing fruit for this wine, and they are showing in this mid-weight and concentrated wine. Morello cherry, satsuma plum, mulberry skin and black-skinned plum-like dusty spice. There’s a fine dusting of cocoa powder and an ever-changing, savoury undercurrent. Winter leaves, petrichor and black, fertile earth. Wow, just wow. The fruit intensity is eye-bulgingly exciting and makes you sit up straight. This is a fine Pinot, focused on the purity of fruit, great oak, and one that will continue to develop for many years. Velvety tannins, long and nubile acidity, finger-laced spice, and a graphite minerality that goes on and on. It’s just sublime, and the finish wraps and tugs at the heartstrings with its red earthy and ferrous finale.
95 Points
Cassandra Charlick – WinePilot.com
A bolder and immediately more powerful statement of this wine, reflecting a warm vintage. Yet the cooler Pemberton region has reigned it in nicely providing control and precision. A savoury and slightly mushroomy aroma with primary black cherry notes. The palate has a density and life yet with medium to light body. Layered and detailed throughout to a sustained long finish. Make sure you decant to allow the sweet fruit characters to release.
95 Points
RayJordanWine.com.au

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2019 Domaine Pierre Boisson Auxey-Duresses Premier Cru Rouge

Burgundy, FRANCE
$199. 00
Bottle
$2388.00 Dozen

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Cork

Previously released under the Domaine Boisson-Vadot label, wines from their holdings are now made and presented under the labels of Bernard Boisson's children; his son Pierre Boisson and daughter Anne Boisson. While the two children vinify separately, they share the same cellar in Meursault, and produce wines that are more similar than they are different. Vine age is impressive, with many plots over 60 years old, and no herbicides or fertilisers used. Wines are fermented wild in barrel, thereafter raised in oak for 19-22 months, with no more than 30% new oak used predominantly for the top cuvées.
Red wines represent around 25% of production of the domaine and the Boissons are every bit as serious about their reds as their whites. All the Pinot Noir is 100% destemmed, with traditional, minimal intervention vinification. They undergo a cold soak before the gradual onset of alcoholic fermentation. The end of the vatting is deliberately drawn out by keeping the temperature down, to allow a process more akin to infusion than extraction. The family want the wines to be pure, fragrant, eminently drinkable.
Pierre Boisson forms this Auxey-Duresses from two premier cru parcels in Le Bretterin and Le Reugne with an average vine age of 40 years. Vinification includes a five-day cold soak followed by fermentation in stainless-steel vats with pumpovers and pigeage. The wine is settled over 10 days before being run to barrel for 18 months maturation in oak, 20% of which are new. Bottled by gravity, unfined and unfiltered.

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2019 Domaine Pierre Boisson Monthelie Rouge

Burgundy, FRANCE
$175. 00
Bottle
$2100.00 Dozen

ABV: 12.5%

Closure: Cork

Previously released under the Domaine Boisson-Vadot label, wines from their holdings are now made and presented under the labels of Bernard Boisson's children; his son Pierre Boisson and daughter Anne Boisson. While the two children vinify separately, they share the same cellar in Meursault, and produce wines that are more similar than they are different. Vine age is impressive, with many plots over 60 years old, and no herbicides or fertilisers used. Wines are fermented wild in barrel, thereafter raised in oak for 19-22 months, with no more than 30% new oak used predominantly for the top cuvées.
Red wines represent around 25% of production of the domaine and the Boissons are every bit as serious about their reds as their whites. All the Pinot Noir is 100% destemmed, with traditional, minimal intervention vinification. They undergo a cold soak before the gradual onset of alcoholic fermentation. The end of the vatting is deliberately drawn out by keeping the temperature down, to allow a process more akin to infusion than extraction. The family want the wines to be pure, fragrant, eminently drinkable.
Fruit for this Monthelie Rouge has an average vine age of 40 years sourced from three different parcels, Les Plantes, Les Longenes, and Les Sous Court. Vinification includes a 5 hours cold maceration before fermentaiton in stainless steel, before being pressed to barrel for 18 months in oak, 20% of which are new.

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2022 Place of Changing Winds Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir

Macedon Ranges, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$150. 00
Bottle
$1800.00 Dozen

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Diam Cork

Place of Changing Winds is located between Mount Macedon and Mount Bullengarook, which inspired the name of this cuvée. The Between Two Mountains, the most representative of the season, is made from all the estate's plots except those used for the Beyond the Forest cuvée. It matured for 18 months in Stockinger casks, with 50% new oak, though the impact of the new oak is minimal due to the large 1,000-liter cask size. It was bottled in January 2024.
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A blend of all the estate sites, except the small parcel making up the Beyond The Forest pinot. This needed a lot of time to unfurl, so best to decant it. It’ll then reward you with morello and sweet dark cherries, warm earth and sumac aromas. Full bodied, savoury with pleasing supple tannins. Drink 2024 - 2034.
95 Points
Jane Faulkner - Halliday's Australian Wine Companion
Named for its more or less equidistance between Mount Macedon and Mount Bullengarook. Produced from all plots on the estate. Matured in 50% new and old Stockinger casks.
Svelte and sleek with distinct succulence and pucker. A sheath of lacy, granitic tannin over dark cherry, tumbles of dried herbs, woody spice, some nori and truffle-like characters in the mix and a general sense of ultra pure, tart cherry juice and flecks of dried currant and cranberry. A real feast for the senses here. Incredible extension of flavour and an almost unnerving consistency to texture in all that – a long and exacting ride of character and charm. Loads of evocative perfume too. Wonderful, all up. Drink 2024 - 2040.
96+ Points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front
The 2022 Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir is spicy and fine on the nose, with cherry pip, raspberry leaf, crushed rocks, pumice stone tannins and black tea. In the mouth, the wine is all about rose petals and iron, silty tannins and lashings of blood plum skin, with violets and Pink Lady apples, rosemary, blood orange, arnica and a very gentle amaro persuasion. A light finish is made persistent by enduring tannins that chew and sway. It's so nice. Distinct. It's easy to swoon somewhat over the packaging, which is not important to wine quality but an indication of aesthetics. It matured for 18 months in Stockinger casks (50% new) and was bottled in January 2024. 13.2% alcohol, sealed under Diam.
94+ Points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

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2024 Plantagenet Three Lions Pinot Noir

Great Southern, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
$22. 99
Bottle
$275.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2025-2030)

ABV: 14%

Closure: Stelvin

Juicy, supplely textured and energetically fresh.
A blend of 90% Pinot Noir and 10% Shiraz. Vibrant red to dark red colour with black toned edges and a light red purple tinged hue. Fragrant cherry and strawberry scents are complimented by violet, rhubarb, forest floor and spice notes. Delicious red cherry and strawberry fruits carry a juicy feel across the supplely textured palate with traces of anise, forest floor and spicy dried herbs the undercard. Energetically fresh it has velvety tannins and a flavoursome mid length finish.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 14%

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2022 Pressing Matters Pinot Noir

Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
$64. 99
Bottle
$779.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 8 Years (2024-2032)

ABV: 12.8%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent ruby red colour with a bright crimson red hue. Perfumed scents of violets, red to dark cherries and strawberries escape from the glass followed by hints of anise, forest floor, fresh herbs and spicy cedar notes. Rich, intensely flavoured and possessing an expansive peacocks tail and power wave, the highly moreish palate is supplely decorated with red to dark cherry, strawberry and anise flavours. Infusions of fresh herbs, rhubarb, forest floor and spicy cedar like characters lie underneath. Possessing ample freshness and polished tannins it finishes exceptionally long and uber delicious.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 12.8%
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Coal River Valley pinot noir made by Samantha Connew. A very pretty bright ruby in the glass with aromas of amaro and blossom-flecked red cherry, raspberry and wild strawberry fruits underscored with hints of spice, Peking duck, leaf litter, dried citrus rind, struck flint and earth. It smells gorgeous, and the palate follows up with smallgoods and undergrowth and mountain herb tones, finishing long with detail, sapid acidity and powdery tannins – it's a wonderful release. If you're ever down Tassie way, make sure you check out the new Pressing Matters cellar door too. It's a beauty. Drink by 2038.
96 points
Dave Brookes – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

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2022 Principia Pinot Noir

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$44. 99
Bottle
$539.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 8 Years (2025-2033)

ABV: 13.6%

Closure: Stelvin

Rich and powerful yet simultaneously light and fresh with a long savoury red fruited finish.
Matured in French oak for approximately 15 months. Dark red core with a light red to red hue. Fragrant violet, red to dark cherry, winter strawberry and rhubarb scents are trailed by forest floor, dried herb and spicy cedar notes. Rich and powerful yet simultaneously light and fresh, delicious red to dark cherry, strawberry and rhubarb fruits adorn the palate. Lending further complexity are notions of forest floor, infusions of fresh herbs and spicy cedar. Fine grained, neatly integrated tannins with a long savoury red fruited finish that has an elegant feel to it.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 13.6%

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2022 Principia Altior Pinot Noir

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$59. 99
Bottle
$719.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 8 Years (2024-2032)

ABV: 13.7%

Closure: Stelvin

Review Summary: An amply powered Pinot with a supple feel and juicy yet refined finish.
The Detailed review: Dark red core with black toned edges and a red tinged hue. Sailing out of the glass with a perfumed like intensity are aromas of violet, red to dark cherry and wild strawberry trailed by some fresh herb, delicate forest floor and light brambly cedar notes. Extending across the palate with ample power and a supple feel are delicious red to dark cherry and wild strawberry fruits. Subtle earth, infusions of fresh herbs and spicy cedar lie underneath. Polished tannins and lively acidity with a juicy yet refined finish.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 13.7%

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2021 Principia Kindred Hill Pinot Noir

Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$59. 99
Bottle
$719.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2024-2030)

ABV: 14.2%

Closure: Stelvin

Matured in French oak for a period of 18 months. Dark red core with black toned edges and a red to dark red hue. Spicy dark to black cherry aromas mix with rhubarb, scorched earth, dried herb and subtle strawberry notes. Rich dark to black cherry and strawberry fruits overlay earth, smoky cedar, dried herbs and spice. Fleshy textured and concentrated it has polished tannins. Finishes long and ripe yet savoury.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 14.2%
Other Reviews....
Beautiful definition across the trio of Principia pinots, this is the most savoury yet still excellent fruit in the mix. Rhubarb, dark cherries, blood orange and chinotto with heady aromas of damp forest floor and baking spices. Fuller bodied with shapely, velvety tannins and fine acidity all add to the wine’s terrific length and carry. Best of all, this is so delicious. Classy wine. Drink 2023 - 2033.
96 Points
Jane Faulkner – Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

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Prisoner Wine Co. Unshackled Pinot Noir

California, UNITED STATES
$34. 99
Bottle
$419.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2024-2028)

ABV: 14.5%

Closure: Cork

Includes 2.5% Syrah with aging taking place in French oak for a period of 9 months. Dark red in colour with black toned edges and a dark red hue. Intense ripe black cherry, strawberry and anise aromas fill the nostrils followed by some vanillin cedar, earth and spice notes. Rich, plump and quite full in style for the variety, the mid weighted palate is layered with juicy black cherry, strawberry and anise flavours with some toasty cedar, earth and spice characteristics lying underneath. Excellent concentration and flesh with velvety tannins and an opulent toasty vanilla laced conclusion.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 14.5%

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2023 Prosper Maufoux Bourgogne Pinot Noir

Burgundy, FRANCE
$39. 99
Bottle
$479.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2024-2029)

ABV: 12%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent red to dark red colour with black toned edges and a red hue. Sour to red cherry and strawberry aromas intermingle with dried clove, earth and spice notes. The light, elegant palate features red cherry and winter strawberry fruits which are intermeshed with subtle dried herb, earth and spice elements. Fine grained tannins with a fresh, savoury finish.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 12%

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2022 Provenance Ballarat Pinot Noir

Ballarat, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$49. 99
Bottle
$599.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2025-2031)

ABV: 13.3%

Closure: Stelvin

Aromatically perfumed with a supple feel and long ripe yet savoury finish.
Semi translucent dark red heart with black shaded edges and a light red hue. Perfumed aromas of violet, dark cherry and strawberry evolve out the glass with excellent intensity. Ensuing are notes of red plum, dried herb, bramble and spicy cedar. Delicious dark cherry and strawberry fruits have a supple feel across the palate with some anise, subtle rhubarb, dried herb, brambly cedar and spice elements lying underneath. Fine grained tannins with a long ripe yet savoury finish.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.3%
Other Reviews…..
Made from 90% whole berries with a small portion of whole bunches. Matured in barriques (25% new). A lively, light, bright crimson. Fragrant with scents of wild strawberry, cranberry and floral notes. Medium bodied, the palate is lively, fresh and pliant, while refined tannins round out a lovely wine that is both immediately appealing and will also reward four to six years cellaring, if not longer. Drink by 2029.
95 Points
Philip Rich – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

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2022 Provenance Henty Pinot Noir

Henty, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$49. 99
Bottle
$599.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2024-2030)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Dark red core with black toned edges and a red to dark red hue. Perfumed aromas of violet, dark cherry, strawberry and anise blossom out of the glass trailed by some dried herb, earth and spicy cedar notes. Rich and fleshy textured yet possessing plenty of underlying freshness, the light to medium bodied palate features dark cherry, strawberry and subtle anise flavours. Beneath lie delicate smoky cedar, dried herb and spicy earth accents. Fine grained tannins with a bright savoury finish.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Other Reviews….
Made with 90% whole berries with a small portion of whole bunches. Matured in barriques (25% new). A medium, bright crimson red. An excellent set of regional Victorian pinots from Provenance in '22, this sits nicely between the Ballarat and Geelong versions. A mix of red and black fruits together with a little thyme and peony. Medium bodied, this silky-textured and well-balanced wine is ready to enjoy but, equally, will only become more complex over time. Drink by 2031.
95 Points
Philip Rich – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion
This is both lithe and sinewy. There’s macerated fruit, there’s an earthen aspect, there’s fragrant herbs and a meaty, bloody, rusty character. It doesn’t have a lot of volume but it makes the most of itself. Tannin is emery-board-fine, and length is very good. This is one of those wines that grows on you more and more, the longer you sit with it. It’s understated but it’s complex. Drink 2025-2029+
94 Points
Campbell Mattinson – The Wine Front

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2022 Provenance Geelong Pinot Noir

Geelong, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$49. 99
Bottle
$599.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2024-2029)

ABV: 13.4%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent dark red colour with black tinged edges and a dark red hue. Nosing offers up ripe strawberry, plum and cherry aromas followed by some vanillin spice and dried herb notes. Juicy plum and strawberry fruits overlay a dried herb, rhubarb and vanillin spice back drop. Polished tannins finishing ripe, well fleshed and spicy.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.4%
Other Reviews….
A single-vineyard wine from Moorabool; 90% whole berries with a small portion of whole bunches, matured in barriques (25% new). A deep-ish bright crimson. Brooding with aromas of red cherries, ripe strawberries, black tea and a gentle meatiness. This is the richer and more structured than Provenance's Ballarat and Henty pinots. While not quite as approachable now, my gut feeling is this will become the most complex in time. They are all worth seeking out! Drink by 2031.
96 Points
Philip Rich – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

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2023 Provenance Golden Plains Pinot Noir

Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$32. 99
Bottle
$395.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2024-2030)

ABV: 13.6%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent dark red colour with black toned edges and a light red hue. Perfumed like aromas of violets, cherries and strawberries mix with anise, fresh herb and spicy cedar notes. Delicious cherry and strawberry fruits are supplely cast across the palate with notions of anise, dried herbs, subtle forest floor and spicy cedar lying underneath. Polished fine grained tannins with a savoury conclusion of ample length.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.6%

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2022 Pyramid Valley Earth Smoke Pinot Noir

North Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND
$175. 00
Bottle
$2100.00 Dozen

ABV: 13%

Closure: Stelvin

Driven to create one of the new world’s great cool-climate vineyards, it took Mike and Claudia Weersing 15 years and a quixotic global journey that included a lengthy stopover in Burgundy before they found their perfect site. Inspired by the climate and soils of that region, the duo finally found their special place in the limestone-rich soils of Waikari in North Canterbury. From here Mike and Claudia established Pyramid Valley and emerged as NZ pioneers of both biodynamic practices and high-density viticulture. For almost 20 years they inspired and/or challenged all those who came into their orbit. Their minute scale and exceptional dedication to their soils and vines led to some incredible wines being produced. First visiting the vineyard in 2007, Steve Smith MW (then of Craggy Range) was one of many affected by what he describes as one the most compelling and unique vineyards he has ever visited. When Mike’s health went into decline, the Weersings were forced to sell and Smith and his partner Brian Sheth acquired the estate in late 2017. The spectre of Burgundy is writ large over the foundation and ethos of Pyramid Valley, yet we should not expect imitations in terms of the style of the wines. Rather they have their own very distinctive style and energy, and this is precisely as it should be with terroir-driven wines; uniqueness is the point.
Both of Pyramid Valley’s Pinot Noir vineyards are densely planted on clay/limestone slopes. Earth Smoke sits on the richer soils of the two: an expansive, east-facing slope with strong, beautifully structured soils that are comparatively high in limestone. The name here comes from the nickname given to fumitory, a plant of the poppy family that can be found thriving in this 0.85-hectare plot. Although both wines share a familial DNA, the later-picked Earth Smoke is typically the more structured and darker of the two, with more fruit weight to go with its tender, fine tannins.
Other reviews...
Having made no Earth Smoke in 2021 due to spring frosts and cool flowering ravaging the yield, it's a welcome return in 2022. Translucent, pure and delicately textured, this Pinot Noir shows a fine hand and the confidence to be hands off. The wine is calm; in the mouth, it gives the impression that a hush has descended. It is attractively scented - full of dried herbs, cherry, festive spice, violets and a hint of smoke. There's plentiful concentration without weight. The tannins are pliant, providing the finest coating for your palate. Drink : 2025 - 2033.
95 points
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous
A crispness, a pulse of tart cherry, a crunch of cranberry, some nougat licks and woody spice with sappy pomegranate juice, a touch of hazelnut paste with bergamot tea, sage leaf and dried rosemary amongst the mix of characters here. It’s got volume of intense, granitic minerality and a grumbling swish of pumice-like, almost Italianate texture to tannins amongst the vibrancy of fruit character.
95 points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front
Sourced from a 0.8ha block of biodynamically farmed pinot noir on the Pyramid Valley Waikari estate. A beautiful, complex-smelling wine with brooding dark plum and cherry fruits, cut with spice, blood orange, amaro herbs, raked leaves, pressed wildflowers, twiggy nuance and crushed stone. So calm and composed on the palate with a sapid calcareous cadence, fine, chalky tannin grip and a long, gamey retreat.
96 points
Dave Brookes - Halliday's Wine Companion
Closed at first but soon opens up with an opulently perfumed nose, layered red/black fruits, florals and spice; a lot of earth and vinosity here, too. Hard to tease it all apart, both on nose and palate. Textural and compact with wonderfully integrated fruit/oak tannins and a spine of bright acidity. Clearly built for the long haul while offering a lot of joy already. Biodynamic. Drink: 2024 - 2032.
96 points
Emma Jenkins MW - Decanter

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2022 Pyramid Valley Angel Flower Pinot Noir

North Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND
$175. 00
Bottle
$2100.00 Dozen

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Driven to create one of the new world’s great cool-climate vineyards, it took Mike and Claudia Weersing 15 years and a quixotic global journey that included a lengthy stopover in Burgundy before they found their perfect site. Inspired by the climate and soils of that region, the duo finally found their special place in the limestone-rich soils of Waikari in North Canterbury. From here Mike and Claudia established Pyramid Valley and emerged as NZ pioneers of both biodynamic practices and high-density viticulture. For almost 20 years they inspired and/or challenged all those who came into their orbit. Their minute scale and exceptional dedication to their soils and vines led to some incredible wines being produced. First visiting the vineyard in 2007, Steve Smith MW (then of Craggy Range) was one of many affected by what he describes as one the most compelling and unique vineyards he has ever visited. When Mike’s health went into decline, the Weersings were forced to sell and Smith and his partner Brian Sheth acquired the estate in late 2017. The spectre of Burgundy is writ large over the foundation and ethos of Pyramid Valley, yet we should not expect imitations in terms of the style of the wines. Rather they have their own very distinctive style and energy, and this is precisely as it should be with terroir-driven wines; uniqueness is the point.
Angel Flower is a cooler, more exposed block than Earth Smoke. The shallow soils and north-facing aspect here result in a more floral and aromatic wine, although the weight and shape of the palate have much in common with Pyramid’s other single-site Pinot. The team have also recently planted a little Chardonnay on these soils, recognising its potential as a great white wine terroir.
Other reviews...
It feels open weave and pretty with rose hip tea, alpine herbal elements, faint game meat, undergrowth and toasty spice strewn around the place. It slips into every corner of the palate, an attractive, sour-sweet flow of tart cherry dressed up with those savoury elements all sheathed in a web of ultra fine, silty, lacy tannin. It finishes with black tea and truffle and a building, drying, refreshing pucker. Fine, elegant, vibrant and energetic. A triumph for the variety.
96 points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front
From a 0.7ha limestone/clay, north-facing, biodynamically farmed slice of the Pyramid Valley estate in Waikari. A beautifully perfumed, ethereal wine that shows delicate redcurrant, red cherry and raspberry fruits with hints of crushed stone, red flowers, blood orange, clover blossom, sous bois and red apple pastries. There is a lot of light in this wine, all detail and shimmering clarity with a spacious mouthfeel, sapidity to burn and the most graceful of exits. Beautiful drinking.
96 points
Dave Brookes - Halliday's Wine Companion
Nose a little shy at first, then lots of perfumed red fruit emerges - tamarillo and plum, a dash of spice, a lift of blue flowers. The delicate, dancing palate has a surprising intensity of ripe, flowing red fruits, lovely fine, chalky tannins and bright, saline/minerally acidity. Very good length. This is smartly made, with no rough edges but isn’t overly polished. Drink: 2024 - 2032.
96 points
Emma Jenkins MW - Decanter

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2022 Pyramid Valley Snake's Tongue Pinot Noir

Central Otago, NEW ZEALAND
$175. 00
Bottle
$2100.00 Dozen

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Driven to create one of the new world’s great cool-climate vineyards, it took Mike and Claudia Weersing 15 years and a quixotic global journey that included a lengthy stopover in Burgundy before they found their perfect site. Inspired by the climate and soils of that region, the duo finally found their special place in the limestone-rich soils of Waikari in North Canterbury. From here Mike and Claudia established Pyramid Valley and emerged as NZ pioneers of both biodynamic practices and high-density viticulture. For almost 20 years they inspired and/or challenged all those who came into their orbit. Their minute scale and exceptional dedication to their soils and vines led to some incredible wines being produced. First visiting the vineyard in 2007, Steve Smith MW (then of Craggy Range) was one of many affected by what he describes as one the most compelling and unique vineyards he has ever visited. When Mike’s health went into decline, the Weersings were forced to sell and Smith and his partner Brian Sheth acquired the estate in late 2017. The spectre of Burgundy is writ large over the foundation and ethos of Pyramid Valley, yet we should not expect imitations in terms of the style of the wines. Rather they have their own very distinctive style and energy, and this is precisely as it should be with terroir-driven wines; uniqueness is the point.
In 2018, Pyramid Valley became a two-property estate when it purchased the Manata vineyard in Central Otago’s Lowburn sub-region. The team quickly applied their precise viticultural standards to what was already considered one of the greatest sites in the region. In just three years, Paulin and his team have doubled the organic matter in the soil and achieved organic certification through BioGro NZ. They also immediately recognised the potential of the block they now call Snake’s Tongue—a nod to one of the many common names used for blue borage: Viper’s (snake’s) bugloss (ox-tongue). Fermented in an open-top concrete tulip, with 25% whole bunches and as much whole berry as possible, the wine matured in 25% new 500-litre puncheons for 12 months, followed by a further six months in neutral oak before being bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Other reviews...
It’s a fleshy, deeply flavoured pinot noir with an elegant bent under its more muscular frame. Dark choc-raspberry, liquorice, cranberry, aniseed, some garam masala spice elements, a bit of warm game meat and some rosy, rose hip tea elements. The wine quite grippy and drying in tannin, a little new leather-meets-river-pebble feel here. Bold and savoury hand-in-hand, though the dryer frame may challenge some for expectations.
93 points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front
Lowburn Terrace pinot noir from the Mānatu vineyard. Mid-crimson with red plum and dark cherry fruits cut with spice, citrus blossom, dried orange peel, amaro herbs, pressed wildflowers and crushed rocks. Sleek, savoury and red-fruited on the palate with layers of fine spice and some distant game and amaro tones; tannins super-fine and chalky and a bright, minerally cadence.
94 points
Dave Brookes - Halliday's Wine Companion
The 2022 Snake's Tongue Pinot Noir won't be released until October 2024, so this is definitely a pre-release tasting, but it’s a wonderful insight into what is to come. There’s petrichor, asphalt, graphite, black tea, satsuma plum, cherry flesh and red apple skins. This has the tannic density of the 2021, but there is far more restraint and delicacy in the fruit profile. I love the way this performs in the mouth, with dried ginger, blood orange, red pepper, a hint of sesame seed and orchard fruit. A superb wine of presence and delicacy. Drink: 2024 - 2036.
94 points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker The Wine Advocate

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2020 Pyramid Valley Earth Smoke Pinot Noir

North Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND
$165. 00
Bottle
$1980.00 Dozen

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Driven to create one of the new world’s great cool-climate vineyards, it took Mike and Claudia Weersing 15 years and a quixotic global journey that included a lengthy stopover in Burgundy before they found their perfect site. Inspired by the climate and soils of that region, the duo finally found their special place in the limestone-rich soils of Waikari in North Canterbury. From here Mike and Claudia established Pyramid Valley and emerged as NZ pioneers of both biodynamic practices and high-density viticulture. For almost 20 years they inspired and/or challenged all those who came into their orbit. Their minute scale and exceptional dedication to their soils and vines led to some incredible wines being produced. First visiting the vineyard in 2007, Steve Smith MW (then of Craggy Range) was one of many affected by what he describes as one the most compelling and unique vineyards he has ever visited. When Mike’s health went into decline, the Weersings were forced to sell and Smith and his partner Brian Sheth acquired the estate in late 2017. The spectre of Burgundy is writ large over the foundation and ethos of Pyramid Valley, yet we should not expect imitations in terms of the style of the wines. Rather they have their own very distinctive style and energy, and this is precisely as it should be with terroir-driven wines; uniqueness is the point.
Both of Pyramid Valley’s Pinot Noir vineyards are densely planted on clay/limestone slopes. Earth Smoke sits on the richer soils of the two: an expansive, east-facing slope with strong, beautifully structured soils that are comparatively high in limestone. The name here comes from the nickname given to fumitory, a plant of the poppy family that can be found thriving in this 0.85-hectare plot. Although both wines share a familial DNA, the later-picked Earth Smoke is typically the more structured and darker of the two, with more fruit weight to go with its tender, fine tannins.
Other Reviews....
The 2020 Pinot Noir Earth Smoke is a massively different wine from its stablemate Angel Flower, giving a more expansive wine that blossoms in the mouth without any sense of weight. There's elegance and sense of precision. And do you know what? It feels special. If I were tasting blind, aromatically, I'd think it were a cool climate Syrah with sandalwood, fennel, agave and white pepper characters in abundance alongside pure cherry fruit. The finish is fresh and precise. Drink 2024-2035.
96 points
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous
Rosehips, wild strawberries, rosemary, oyster shells, peppercorns, violets and thyme on the nose. Wonderfully fragrant and expressive, with tight tannins and vibrant acidity. Delicious peppery, lightly stemmy notes. Lots of tension. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
95 points
JamesSuckling.com

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2023 Re’ Em Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$76. 99
Bottle
$923.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2025-2029)

ABV: 12.6%

Closure: Stelvin

Light in body with a vibrant juicy feel and savoury finish.
Semi translucent red to dark red colour with black toned edges and a bright red hue. Fragrant scents of violet, red cherry and strawberry blossom out of the glass trailed by some forest floor, delicate rhubarb and dried herb notes. Light in body, the palate has a vibrant juicy feel with red cherry, strawberry and rhubarb flavours to the fore. Subtle forest floor and spicy cedar elements the undercard. Fine grained tannins with a fresh, savoury finish.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 12.6%

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2022 Redbank King Valley Pinot Noir

King Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$23. 99
Bottle
$287.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 2 Years (2025-2027)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Ripe fleshy fruits on entry drying out towards a slightly bitter and rustic finish.
Semi translucent very dark red core with black toned edges and a light brick red hue. Ripe strawberry and plum scents are interwoven with dried herb, spicy earth and mint notes. Ripe strawberry and cherry fruits make a supple well fleshed entry with the back palate drying out a touch revealing dried herb, spicy earth and subtle bitter amaro like characters. Chalky tannins and lively acidity with a rustic feel to the finish.
Drink over the next 1-2 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2023 Riposte The Sabre Pinot Noir

Adelaide Hills, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
$32. 99
Bottle
$395.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2025-2029)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Vibrant brambly red fruits with a supple feel and elegant finish.
Semi translucent red to dark red colour with black tinged edges and a light red hue. Fragrant violet, red to dark cherry and rhubarb scents drift through the nostrils followed by some dried herb, bramble and spice notes. Vibrant red cherry and rhubarb flavours intermix with bramble, forest floor and spicy dried herb elements. Supple mouth feel with polished tannins and an elegant mid length finish.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Other Reviews…..
The 2023 The Sabre Pinot Noir is all cherries and exotic spice, with lean, leafy characters on the mid-palate. This is a complex wine of presence and finesse, but with the 2024 Dagger so fresh in my mind, I can't help searching for some of that perfectly ripe, concentrated and yet capacious fruit that I tasted there. This is undoubtedly more complex and has cherry pip, aniseed, clove and iodine, so gravitate to what makes you sing. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink 2025-2033.
92 Points
Robert Parker – The Wine Advocate

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2024 Nicks Secret Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir

Adelaide Hills, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
Reduced from $19.99
$14. 99
Bottle
$179.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2025-2029)

ABV: 13%

Closure: Stelvin

This delicious, vibrant Pinot Noir is produced from four different clones planted in vineyards located at Gumeracha, Forreston and Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills. 2024 was a cool but sunny vintage that produced low yields but high quality fruit. Brimming with savoury red fruits it sees no oak in order to preserve freshness and purity.
A light, supplely textured Pinot brimming with red fruits that makes for great everyday drinking.
Red to dark red in colour with black toned edges and a translucent red hue. Very fragrant out of the glass with violet, red to dark cherry and strawberry scents sailing through the nostrils. Some fresh herb, delicate forest floor and spicy rhubarb notes are also present. Delicious strawberry and cherry fruits drive the light, supplely textured palate with rhubarb, subtle anise, forest floor and spicy dried herb elements sitting underneath. Polished tannins with fresh acidity lending vibrancy to the juicy mid length finish.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 13%
Other Reviews....
A fine Pinot Noir from the Adelaide Hills, the colour here is a bright crimson. The nose exhibits delightful notes of red fruits, chinotto, a hint of tomato bush and a lovely cherry cola character. This is sleek in every way with bright acidity and fine balance. An elegant, stylish Pinot with a lingering finish, this will provide pleasure for five to six years but is really drinking nicely at the moment. Drink 2024-2030.
92 points
Ken Gargett – WinePilot.com

The 2024 The **** Pinot Noir leads with an abundance of red berries and sumptuous spice: pink peppercorns, raspberry pip, anise and red apple. In the mouth, the wine is chalky, flavorsome and delicious. There's impressive concentration and density of flavor, but it's never at the expense of balance or elegance. This is so good! It's the best *** yet for ****. 13% alcohol, sealed under screw cap. Drink 2025-2034.
94 points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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2020 Rippon Emma’s Block Mature Vine Pinot Noir

Central Otago, NEW ZEALAND
$155. 00
Bottle
$1860.00 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 8 Years (2024-2032)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Diam Cork

Slightly cloudy red to dark red colour with a light red hue. Fragrant violet, red cherry and winter strawberry scents sail out of the glass with hints of anise, earth and fresh herbs also present. Light in body, delicious red cherry and strawberry fruits infused with fresh herbs meld with earth and spicy cedar. Fresh acidity and fine grained tannins with a long elegant conclusion that shows plenty of red fruited energy.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Other Reviews….
This is so opened and perfumed with sliced strawberry, orange and fresh mushroom. Full, velvety and caressing texture and finish. Articulate. Seductive. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold.
98 Points
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The vines are east facing and close to the lake, with less afternoon sun (which means it isn't exposed to the extended heat of the afternoon). "There is clay down there which gives the tannins more mobility and animation," says Nick Mills.
The 2020 Emma's Block Mature Vine Pinot Noir leads with dehydrated cranberry, cherry blossom, graphite and dried star anise. The nose is exotic and restrained at once. This is the entree to the palate which is defined absolutely by the tannins that feel very much like they plume in the wine, like a drop of blood in water. These are wines to feel as much as they are to taste, and this is what helps them stand alone in this place. It’s superb, with unbroken form through the long finish—no strays, no rough edges, no breaks. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam. Drink 2023-2035.
95+ Points
Erin Larkin – Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate

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2020 Rippon "Rippon" Mature Vine Pinot Noir

Central Otago, NEW ZEALAND
$120. 00
Bottle
$1440.00 Dozen

Cellar: 5 - 6 Years (2029-2030)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Diam Cork

Dark red in colour with black toned edges and a transparent red to dark red hue. Elevated red to dark cherry, violet, strawberry and red plum scents drift out of the glass with notions of dried herbs, earth and spicy cedar also chiming in. Delicious dark cherry, strawberry and plum fruits show good underlying freshness with infusions of herbs, delicate earth and spicy cedar lingering through the back half. Fine grained tannins with a fresh, delicately spiced mid length conclusion.
Cellar 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Other Reviews….
Extremely perfumed with a pretty ripeness and clarity, offering plums and al-dente strawberries. Some cantaloupe, too. It's medium- to full-bodied with juicy fruit that's lovely and open. You want to drink it now. And do. Crunchy yet velvety and caressing in the mouth-feel from the lovely, open tannins. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Best in a year or two, but right on.
97 Points
JamesSuckling.com

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2024 Rising Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$29. 99
Bottle
$359.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2025-2030)

ABV: 13%

Closure: Stelvin

Moreish, supplely textured Pinot.
Semi translucent red to dark red colour with a light red hue. Sailing through the nostrils with a perfumed like intensity are violet, red cherry and winter strawberry aromas followed by hints of fresh herbs, anise and forest floor. Delicious cherry and strawberry fruits decorate the palate and carry with them a supple textural feel. Some delicate anise, spicy dried herb and forest floor elements lie underneath. Excellent power and concentration with polished tannins and a long moreish finish.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13%

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The first thing I noticed upon opening the bottle was a ripe, confectionery-like aroma that filled the room. After a bit of breathing, red cherry, strawberry, plum and black tea came forth to round out the delightful nose, with some stemminess obvious once you inspected the wine a bit closer. It had a juicy, salivating quality to it that made it very easy to drink up the bright, silky liquid, and it was even a touch better on the second night. Like the Chardonnay, it’s just as nice as a sipper or with food.
93 points
Brendan Black - WinePilot.com

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2023 Roaring Meg Pinot Noir

Central Otago, NEW ZEALAND
$36. 99
Bottle
$443.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2025-2030)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Light to medium bodied with a well fleshed mid palate and a savouriness to the finish.
Matured for 9 months in French oak Roaring Meg is the second label of Mt Difficulty. Deep dark red core with black toned edges and a dark red hue. Pronounced dark to black cherry, anise and dark plum aromas are intertwined with some toasty cedar, earth and spicy dried herb notes. Light to medium bodied, the palate features dark to black cherry and anise flavours which carry good flesh. Spicy cedar, earth and subtle dried herb elements lie underneath. Fine grained tannins with a savouriness to the mid length finish.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.5%
Other Reviews……
Vibrant aromas of cherries, wild strawberries, dried herbs and wet bark. The medium-bodied palate has focused acidity and crunchy, finely tuned tannins. Finishes bright, fresh and spicy. Drink now. Screw cap.
93 Points
JamesSuckling.com

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2023 Rob Dolan True Colours Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$24. 99
Bottle
$299.88 Dozen

Minimum 12 bottles

Cellar: Drink now - 4 Years (2024-2028)

ABV: 13.3%

Closure: Stelvin

Semi translucent red to dark red colour with black toned edges and a light red hue. Fragrant dark cherry, strawberry and rhubarb scents are complimented by dried herb, forest floor and spice notes. Savoury dark cherry, strawberry and rhubarb flavours decorate the palate with infusions of fresh herbs, forest floor and spice the underbelly. Fine grained tannins with a medium to long finish.
Drink over the next 3-4 years.
Alc. 13.3%

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2024 Rob Hall Harriet's Vineyard Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$42. 99
Bottle
$515.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 6 Years (2025-2031)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Rich and texturally supple, showcasing Pinot Noir’s trademark power without weight quality.
Harriet’s vineyard, planted in 1996 and named after Rob Hall’s mother, is managed in sections with each one picked individually to create separate batches which undergo a variety of fermentation techniques in order to promote greater complexity. Includes 15% whole bunches with maturation taking place in a 50/50 mix of 1-year-old puncheons and seasoned hogsheads.
Semi translucent red colour with black toned edges and a light red hue. Displaying a perfumed like intensity the nose feature violet, dark cherry, strawberry, anise and rhubarb aromas over brambly cedar, forest floor and subtle fresh herb notes. Rich and texturally supple across the palate it has Pinot Noir’s trademark power without weight quality. Unfolding like a peacocks tail are expansive red to dark cherry, strawberry, rhubarb and subtle anise flavours. Delicate spicy vanillin cedar, forest floor, dried herb and bramble elements sit underneath. Silky smooth tannins with a long, moreish finish.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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2024 Rob Hall Pinot Noir

Yarra Valley, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$26. 99
Bottle
$323.88 Dozen

Cellar: Drink now - 5 Years (2025-2030)

ABV: 13.5%

Closure: Stelvin

Growing up in Healesville, a young Rob Hall did some summer work in the vineyards during the early to mid nineties before taking up full time work at Yarra Ridge then Punt Road. From 2002 to 2011 he was the winemaker at Mount Mary, it wasn’t until 2014 that he took the leap and began his own operation.
2024 was excellent year in the Yarra Valley, after a wet spring, summer came good with slow ripening days, resulting in lovely aromatics and wonderful intensity. This Pinot Noir was sourced from five vineyards – Harriet’s, Full Moon, Boat O’Craigo, Nenagh Park and Yarrawalla with only 10% of the Harriet’s component being whole bunch. Maturation was predominantly in seasoned hogheads and puncheons (300 & 500L).
Rich, powerful and expansive Yarra Valley Pinot that over delivers.
Semi translucent dark red core with black shaded edges and a light red hue. Exhibiting a perfumed like intensity, the nose is engulfed with dark cherry, violet, strawberry and subtle rhubarb scents. Anise, brambly dried herb, forest floor and spice notes also chime in to lend further interest. Expansive, concentrated and supplely textured, rich dark cherry and strawberry fruits unfold across the palate with terrific power. Extending through the back half are complexing notions of subtle rhubarb, traces of anise, brambly cedar, dried herbs, delicate forest floor and spice. Velvet smooth tannins impart a silken feel which carries right through to a long, incredibly moreish finish. This is Rob Hall in top form.
Drink over the next 4-5 years.
Alc. 13.5%

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An obsession with a fickle varietal.

Once you experience it, you never forget it. For some wine lovers, Pinot Noir becomes an obsession. While promising one of world's greatest wine experiences, it can also deliver some of the most disappointing. What is it about Pinot that makes it so frustratingly variable? There are known quality factors which offer encouragement to winemakers. Micro-climates have been observed to play an important part in a successful matrix, particularly the diurnal temperature range. Pinot Noir is a little like Riesling, in the sense that it requires warm, but not overly hot days and cool nights to fully develop its maximum flavour potential. Sunshine hours, rainfall, time and rate of precipitation are all important. Countering this is the fact that the same clone will not respond to differences in micro-climate in the same way. Older vines make better wines. Creative and adaptive viticultural management and winemaking are essential.

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