Critic Scores:

• 97 – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
• 97 – Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
• 96 – Erin Larkin, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
• 95 – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

This exceptional Balnarring red wine showcases a masterful exploration of cool-climate terroir, captured through an ambitious, ultra-high-density viticultural lens. Crafted by winemaker Sandro Mosele on an estate site highly praised by renowned French soil scientist Claude Bourguignon, the 2024 vintage brings together five distinct volcanic basalt and ironstone parcels—Vertex, Ironstone, Chicory, Kilnside, and Basalt.

Pouring a medium-full depth of garnet colour, it presents an intricately complex bouquet dominated by earthy sous-bois, roasting-pan, and savory aromas.

On the palate, the wine bursts with succulent flavors of sweet dark-cherry and blackberry, meticulously framed by fine-grained skin tannins and an energising, structural acidity.

The mouthfeel is beautifully poised and expands toward the back-palate with a spectacular, swelling 'peacock's tail' of spicy cherry elements that linger long and satisfyingly. Standing at the absolute pinnacle of critical acclaim, Huon Hooke of The Real Review awarded the vintage a stellar 97 points and ranked it #1 of all 2024 Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noirs, celebrating the wine as "utterly delicious" for its profound fruit concentration and mouth-filling length.