2022 Place of Changing Winds Beyond the Forest Pinot Noir
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2022 Place of Changing Winds Beyond the Forest Pinot Noir

Macedon Ranges, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
$250. 00
Bottle
$3000.00 Dozen
ABV: 13.5%
Closure: Diam Cork

The Place of Changing Winds team discovered that most parcels performed best as part of the overarching blend, Between Two Mountains. However, there was an exception: a cuvée with remarkable perfume, precision, and finesse that warranted separate bottling. This wine comes from the north-to-east facing amphitheatre overlooking the forest around the property, hence its name. Aged for 18 months in 100% Stockinger casks, with 50% new oak, it is a pure, perfumed Pinot with enough structure for aging. It was bottled at the end of January 2024.

Other Reviews....
Two pinots made in ’22, a blend under the Between Two Mountains label and this new addition, comprising a small parcel of fruit off the north-facing vineyard. It is aged for 18 months in Stockinger casks, 50% new, which imparts a distinctive sweet wood spice/char flavour. Expect some cherry compote and black fruits, yet this is very much savoury in outlook. Wafts of undergrowth, twigs, menthol and amaro. Textural, lightly drying tannins, a slight raw wood note, yet everything is neatly placed. Drink 2025 - 2034.
96 Points
Jane Faulkner - Halliday's Australian Wine Companion

The 2022 Beyond the Forest Pinot Noir is so perfumed. It bursts forth from the glass with red-hearted summer fig, cherry, violets and Boscobel rose, raspberry pip, a hint of pomegranate, crushed rocks and native leaves. The wine is possessed of such a lovely shape: all concentration and sapidity on the front while it patiently tails out over a long, languid finish; it is persistent and fine and so composed. I love the fruit, I love the tannins, I love the balance. It feels good to drink and to chew. Superb. This is one of Australia's very finest Pinots. It's made in the same way as the Between Two Mountains Pinot and was matured in 100% Stockinger casks for 18 months, 50% new. A total of 747 bottles were filled, with 24 magnums. 13.5% alcohol, sealed under Diam and wax.
97+ Points
Erin Larkin - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

From an isolated section of the vineyard and a parcel that felt distinct from the intent of blending. Similar to Between Two Mountains, it rests in Stockinger wood, 50% new, before bottling.
Supreme finesse. All the accolades and hallelujahs. It sets up with a huge volume of fine scents, cherries ‘n’ berries, a fog of sweet turned earth and dried leaves, peppery spice, lifted alpine herbal elements and some faint mahogany woodiness. The palate a mime of the aromas in a taut and tumbling bundle of grippy, almost Italianate tannin profile, finishing spicy, softly woody, fruity and savoury. It’s impressive and so very composed, elegant, luxurious despite its tension and travel. To be savoured if not to stand back and admire grandly while drinking. Sound the alarums. Drink 2024 - 2040.
97+ Points
Mike Bennie - The Wine Front