BANNOCKBURN SERRE PINOT NOIR 2023

Style: Savoury & Detailed

Since its establishment by Stuart Reginald Hooper in 1974, Bannockburn Vineyards has been at the vanguard of the Australian fine wine story, producing vineyard designated wines of the highest quality from the start. Lying 25 kilometres northwest of Geelong along the Midland Highway, this heavyweight estate is located in the Moorabool Valley sub-region, just outside the township of Bannockburn. The estate comprises 26 vineyard blocks¿including the iconic Serré vineyard (now the site of Australia's oldest close-planted Pinot Noir vines). Here, Bannockburn¿s predominantly mature vines are rooted in one of Victoria¿s most unique low-fertility terroirs; volcanic surface debris and ancient seabeds running to richer and darker soils, layered over predominantly limestone bedrock. BIBENDUM

This is autumnal and sinewy and savoury and spiced, but it's also sleek, harmonious and settled. It just feels right. It bursts onto the palate with red cherries, rhubarb, tangerine and strawberry, with inlays of dried leaves, pepper and smoked cedarwood, but it's the soft-firm of the finish, and the way it seems to both dry and expand at once, and the way the juices keep flowing and fanning, that really mark its quality. This will be released in August 2024. It's a top release, and it will mature beautifully.(95+)CAMPBELL MATTINSON

Region: Geelong, VICTORIA

Variety: Pinot Noir

ABV: 12.5%

Liquor Act 2007. It is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of a person under the age of 18 years. Lic No. LIQP770016424

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