Elanto Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

A red wine for a cricket match. Beautiful aromatics, with a compote of English summer red fruits, rhubarb, lavender and sandalwood. Rich, verging on full bodied, the fruit super complex and juicy with blueberry, blackberry, blackcurrant and tangy red fruits. Licorice, baking spices and earth, the wines lusciousness tensioned by fabulous oak and long, tight tannins.  Incredibly for Sandro, this will undoubtably improve with another few years in bottle. A real statement of intent. Waters Wine Co

Never in a million years would I have picked the vine age given the savouriness, detail and complexity in this wine. Fruit off four-year-old vines. Quite astonishing and yet, the proof is in the glass. Full of heady aromatics – all florals and wood spice with flavours of dark cherry, cherry compote and poached rhubarb. But it’s not at all fruity, as it also comes with a hint of charred radicchio and Italian bitter herbs. There’s a vivacity across the just medium-bodied palate, a little sinewy, yet savoury through and through; best of all, the shapely, fine tannins take charge as it finishes long and convincingly. Made from hand-picked fruit, whole-berries with 3% whole-bunches, fermented in Nico Velo Tulipe concrete vats, pressed off skins after a month and aged a year in mostly light toast François Frères barriques, 30% new. 95 points – Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion

This wine is a blend of the 5 Pinot Noir vineyards (lieu-dits); Vertex, Ironstone, Chicory, Kilnside and Basalt. Each vineyard was picked and vinified separately. The fruit was first chilled and then sorted and destemmed into concrete vats with a small (3-5%) selection of whole bunches. A cold soak followed by natural fermentation completed in vat before pressing after 25-30 days on skins. The wines were raised in a mix of new and older French oak barriques. Malolactic conversion completed late spring and the wine spent a total of 11 months in barrel before bottling. Diam 30 closure.