Giant Steps
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Giant Steps Wombat Creek Vineyard Chardonnay 2019
$60.00There’s striking freshness of lemon and yellow grapefruit here with a chalky, stony, flinty edge. The fresh fruit carries subtly spicy oak nicely. There are grapefruit and fresh yellow-peach flavors in abundance. This carries energetic, acidity-fueled drive and delivers impressive balance, as well as length. So long and juicy. Drink or hold. 97 Points, James […]
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Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021
$65.00From the Primavera vineyard at Woori Yallock, planted in 2001 on the same red soil as Wombat Creek. Both destemmed (55%) and whole-bunch components. Bottled unfined and unfiltered. A very bright crimson purple. So pure and perfumed with briary cherries, ripe redcurrants and freshly cut roses. Poised, juicy and energetic, the wine has so much […]
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Giant Steps Yarra Valley Rose 2021
$29.00Puckering stuff, a consistent theme with Giant Steps nowadays. Strawberry, raspberry and rhubarb, with a dash of cream and middle east spice. Impossible not to swallow this one! Waters Wine Co 100% pinot noir, hand picked, specifically for this rosé, wild-yeast fermented. Vibrantly fresh aromas and flavours; rose petals, violets and delicate spices on the […]
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Giant Steps Wombat Creek Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
$60.00As cool as this vineyard is, there’s an extra dimension of textural chew, weight and detail, defying the high elevation. Intense aromatics, Riesling-like in their precocious vividness. Red apple, lemon, preserved lime, yellow peach, nectarine, lime blossom, flint, cashew, subtle spice and preserved vine leaves. Shocking power, naked, raw and refined. Pristine and pure fruit, […]
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Giant Steps Sexton Vineyard Pinot Noir 2020
$62.00Medium-depth red/purple hue. Lovely ripe red to dark cherry aromas, fresh and bright, already very accessible. Ample fine tannins , in balance. Beautifully made. A juicy pinot to enjoy relatively young. This gives a stack of pleasure. 95 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
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Giant Steps Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2021
$35.00A great vintage for this wine and a classic, contemporary expression of Yarra Valley Chardonnay. Expressive and packed with energy. White peach, jasmine, nectarine, lemon zest and grapefruit. Very fresh style, but softer and not as high pitched as the single vineyards. Terrific value. Waters Wine Co Whole-bunched pressed into older French puncheons. Natural fermentation […]
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Giant Steps Fatal Shore Pinot Noir 2020
$72.00A notably deeper colour than the Giant Steps Yarra pinots, looking more Central Otago than Yarra! The bouquet shows dark fruits rather than red, rich and ripe, with more stemmy whole-bunch overtones than the 2020 Yarra pinots, although they all have about 50% whole-bunch ferments. The wine is medium-bodied and has more weight and tannin […]
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Giant Steps Tarraford Chardonnay 2021
$60.00For those who love cool, pure, restrained and mineral chardonnay. The softest, ‘freshwater’ feel palate. Citrus and stone fruits, lemon blossom, ginger, gardenia, flint, butter and minerals. The other chardonnays have such intensity and drive, but this is an altogether different beast. Think scallops, Pacific oysters and whiting. If you’d match the others with rich, […]
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Giant Steps Sexton Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
$60.00The Sexton vineyard tends to make the most “waxy” textured of all the single vineyards. Indeed, the softest and most approachable from a young age, reminiscent of the Maconnais, rather than the Cote d’Or. However in 2021, we see a reversal, and I think it is a decisive stylistic step. Rich and full bodied, chewy […]
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Giant Steps Applejack Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
$60.00Cool as a crisp apple with the Giant Steps extra layer of flesh and texture. High elevation makes this the most artic wine of this release and reminds me of Goisot’s renditions from Auxerre. Tingling and tangy with preserved lemon, green apple, custard apple, white peach, apricot, roasted salted macadamia, cream and not too subtle […]
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Giant Steps Tarraford Chardonnay 2020
$60.00A soft, delicate, restrained wine with aromas of white flowers and a whiff of almond meal. Cashew-nutty too. A more straightforward style and a trifle short on the finish compared to other vineyards. It’s remarkably backward and restrained considering it’s the lowest altitude vineyard and earliest harvested. 92 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review […]
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Giant Steps Sexton Vineyard Chardonnay 2020
$60.00Malty, lanolin, raw almond aromas, delicate, refined, subtle and beautifully balanced. Tastes quite different to a Gingin clone wine from, say, Margaret River. Intense, very fine and long and there’s a gentle grip on the finish that helps cleanse the aftertaste. 93 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review
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Giant Steps Fatal Shore Pinot Noir 2021
$70.00I love that this wine is named after the book The Fatal Shore, by the late great art critic and journalist Robert Hughes. He was ordinally from Sydney and became the greatest art critic, if such a thing can be said, of his generation. For those of you you haven’t read Robert Hughes, I strongly […]
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Giant Steps Pinot Noir 2021
$35.00Stunning, with terrific focus and intensity to the core of Earl Grey tea, firm, juicy cherry, raspberry and white pepper flavors. Notes of clove and green cardamom linger on the finish, with a touch of salted caramel. Drink now through 2034. 94 Points – Maryann Worobiec, Wine Spectator
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Giant Steps Wombat Creek Vineyard Chardonnay 2020
$60.00Very intense chardonnay, with lemon, lime, grapefruit, cream and spicy oak on the nose. Super bright palate, powerful fruit wrapped in a squeeze of mineral texture and riesling like acidity. Stunning, with huge ageing potential. Waters Wine Co Giant Steps’ higher-elevation sites, as in this and Applejack Vineyard, have turned out racy, long and superfine […]
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Giant Steps Applejack Vineyard Chardonnay 2020
$60.00A contemporary style of Yarra Valley chardonnay, along the lines of Hoddles Creek. Intense, precise, puckering and salty. Apple, lemon, pink grapefruit, cinnamon, butter, preserved lime and orange blossom. Very linear structure, all the elements traced by fine acidity. Unique style? Excellent stuff. Waters Wine Co Slightly reductive at first—smoky, then talcy and restrained, fresh […]
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