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Applecross Pinot Noir 2024
DOZEN: $723.60 or $60.30 each
The 2024 Applecross Pinot Noir is from a massal selection of clonal material planted between 1976 and 1998 at St. Andrews in the Yarra Valley. It was fermented with whole berries/whole bunches, and the élevage was in French oak barrels. This wine, a few months ahead of its market release currently, is so bright and perfumed. Rose, pistachio, graphite/petrichor, dry spice and tapenade coalesce on the palate in a rush. Pure, tightly wound and eminently focused, this is a gorgeous wine. The whole-bunch character rides high in the wine, but far from finding it distracting, I find myself attracted to it. This is super good and comes warmly recommended. (95+) ERIN LARKIN, Wine Advocate
A lovely mid weight, ripe, sumptuous style of Pinot. Aromatically alluring, with plenty of fruit to engage you along with the array of spice and mulch like aromas. Once it hits your mouth it changes a gear and hits with some snap to the feel and the phenolics make themselves known, they are most definitely present here, but I like the feel of them and they will hold this thing in good stead for a decade or so in your cellar. Classy is the word I would use for this. ROSCOE