Region: Geelong

Variety: Pinot Noir 

What's in the glass: It is easy to forget this is made from grape juice. I can’t imagine a more remote starting point to something that gives so much pleasure. The transformation from sweet one dimensional juice, to multi faceted wine is nothing short of alchemy, or so it seems. I know it sounds creepy, but I just rolled this wine around in my mouth. Drinking it, almost unnecessary, but ultimately, too hard to deny. The nose of this wine is endlessly complex, as the previous wines were, but it is more fully resolved. In that I mean it is riper, less herbal, softer and more fully formed. The wine makes you \ \ salivate, and is the very type of wine that helps define vinous descriptors like “peacocks tail”. In the abstract sense, these words, like so many others, seem like flummery, but the description comes from the sense of a broadening and greater intricacy, and indeed volume, that the wine exhibits. It is how the wine delivers more beauty towards the “end” of the palate, as it is swallowed. The RP is seamless. I can’t find anything to fault in the RP, it is luxurious and the zenith of Pinot Noir expression in my opinion. BEN KNIGHT, CRITIC

Farming: Sustainable

Vegan Friendly: Yes