Yarra Yering Waterloo Pinot Noir 2024
The 2024 season was the third extremely intensive and difficult growing season in the Yarra Valley. It required high inputs and diligence from the viticulture team.
Handpicked and chilled overnight, the bunches are carefully sorted and gently destemmed to ensure only the finest berries reach the fermenter. Twice-daily hand plunging during fermentation encourages gentle extraction, resulting in a soft fruit palate and refined tannins. After a gentle press to separate the wine from skins and seeds, it is gravity-filled into 20% new French oak barrels and matured for 10 months in our cool underground cellar.
A pleasant young wine with a gentle fruit profile that will continue to evolve under suitable cellaring conditions for 3-5 years. Pinot Noir can, but doesn’t typically require cellaring.
A lifted violet and a rose petal fragrance, mixed cherry fruits and some pomegranate.
The palate fleshy and flavoursome with cherry fruits restrained by a little spice and some char. A Pinot Noir with a silky and elegant fruit profile wrapped in a fine tannin blanket giving a medium bodied and gently structured wine. With an easy appeal and giving in its youth, it also has presence with a wonderful persistence.
