The 2025 Australian wine vintage was a remarkably fast, hot, and dry growing season that produced low disease pressure and highly concentrated fruit profiles. According to the Wine Australia National Vintage Report, the total grape crush rebounded by 11% to 1.57 million tonnes after two record-low years, though volumes still remained comfortably below the long-term historical average. Geographically, weather extremes varied significantly acros...
Indigo Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025 ($90) – Beechworth Pinot Noir from a trio of clones. The team have been making Pinot from this vineyard since 2002. 25% whole bunches are included, and maturation was in a mix of French oak barriques and puncheons, for nine months, with 25% new oak.
Vibrant crimson in colour with a garnet rim, this is a fragrant and classy Pinot Noir. Fresh in style with spicy notes, along with red fruits, dried herbs, aniseed, dark cherries, raspberries and root vegetables, there is juicy acidity providing energy. The wine exhibits very good persistence and finishes with fine, satiny tannins. There is a supple texture throughout. A cracking Pinot Noir for drinking over the next decade. 95.
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