Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2025

Franco says '100% Estate grown. Combination of some eight year old plantings and existing 2001 plantings that stylistically don't fit in Hoddles Estate blend'  This is better than the Tasmanian wine by a margin! More composed and fine, more concentrated.
Raspberry, cherry, some spice, mint and floral perfume. It's medium-bodied, a juicy cherry and raspberry pip flavour, sooty tannin and subtle earthiness, and gee, it's a convincing wine from front to back, It has an unusual level of gravitas for a $20 wine, and pretty much, I'd say, it would be hard to do better than this at this price point. Also has a 'mineral' thing about it. Yes. GARY WALSH, The Wine Front

Deep, bold purple colour; the nose is rich and ripe with dark-cherry to plum aromas, a little background Italian herb touch from whole-bunch ferment. The wine is rich and full in the mouth with ample flavour and lovely ripe, almost voluptuous fruit backed by fine, dusty tannins that add to the fruit giving good persistence. A very smart pinot that is incredible value, drinking well already and will likely be even better in a year or so HUON HOOKE

SPECIAL VALUE - You gotta love just how different the three Wickhams Road pinots are... still deliver superb value for money. This is the darkest in colour and the ripest of the three. Rich, plummy and full of flavour, with enough tannin to suggest it will soften and improve over the next 12-24 months. PHILIP RICH, James Halliday's Wine Companion