We have produced only one Pinot Noir from 2023. This was because when we sampled a blend of all our best parcels (including those that typically produce our Beyond the Forest cuvée), they simply worked best together. The result is a perfumed, complex, and structured Pinot that is also one of the most seductive Pinots we have produced.

There is a core of sweet fruit that belies the cool, late season and speaks more to our low yields, but there is also plenty of Asian spice characters on the nose and palate, crystalline red fruit, high-toned florals (violet and rose) and driven finish with plenty of fine structure for aging. It is a gorgeous drink now if you give it plenty of air in a decanter, but it will certainly cellar well. Bottled in January 2025, whole bunches made up almost a third of the ferments (bringing a lot of perfume and spice), and the wine spent 21 months maturing in a range of Stockinger casks (228, 500, 600 and 1,000 litres) and some Wineglobe (glass fermenters), with only around 5% new oak.

Alcohol: 12%. Closure: Diam. 6449 bottles and only 24 magnums produced.

Our Grower white wine comes from Harcourt North in Victoria’s Bendigo G.I., about an hours’ drive north of our Macedon cellars. With its pure, sandy, granitic soils, and mild climate, we believe this place is one of Australia’s most exciting places for Rhone varieties, both white and red. The eroded granite soils, and the mild climate, allows for a full ripening cycle (we always harvest in March). As always, the grapes were picked fully ripe, pressed firmly and sent straight to barrel (500 and 228 litres), concrete egg and 220-litre glass Wineglobe, for both fermentation and aging with all the fine lees. Malolactic occurred naturally and the wine was bottled in November 2024 without fining or filtration.

This is the polar opposite of the ‘pinot gris’ style of many Australian Marsanne’s that are picked early, inoculated, tank reared and filtered. It will certainly age well, gaining more honeyed characters, but is equally delicious now. It has the power and richness of previous releases, yet with good vibrancy thanks to Harcourt’s micro-climate and the inclusion of Roussanne.

Alcohol: 14.4%.   Closure: Diam 30.   

This is our third Syrah release from Harcourt North (from the same site as the white above). Fermented with 60% whole-bunches, the wine underwent almost two years’ maturation in large-format Stockinger (500, 1,500- and 2,000-litre casks) and was bottled in late February 2025. From a cooler vintage, it’s another example that combines perfume and finesse with excellent depth and fine structure.

Alcohol: 13.3%. Closure: Diam 30.

Our Heathcote Syrah comes from an east-facing plot of 20-plus-year-old vines rooted in the red Cambrian soils of the Mount Camel Range. Although this northerly subregion is capable of producing some of Heathcote’s most refined wines, this area still produces far more powerful wines than our Harcourt site, so it gets an additional year in cask. The 2022 spent its first year in a range of neutral barrels before being blended to a 2,000-litre Stockinger cask for the remainder of its maturation. It was bottled at the end of February 2025 after three years of aging in wood. Although a refined, savoury and perfumed expression of Heathcote (and only just over 13%), it remains a deep Syrah that might just live forever.

Alcohol: 13.3%. Closure: Diam 30.