Place of Changing Winds Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir 2022

$135.00

The 2021 was one of the greatest pinot noirs to ever come out of Australia but the 2022 is just as good. Slightly more high toned, but the fruit is still a mix of sweet, tangy black and red fruits. Wildly complex, a wine from the northern climes of the Cote d’Or with its truffles, charcuterie, blueberry, fresh compost, clove, aniseed, rhubarb, soy, sandalwood and peat. Rich, dense and that sense of effortless power. Once awkward, this is now confident, seamless, every sip a new mystery uncovered. No tasting note will do it justice, there’s just too much to talk about, so beautifully absorbing it is. The scaffold of structure is wrapped in flavour, it’s like you don’t even know it’s there. If any bottles are still around in fifty years, I bet they will be singing. Wines like this deserve their own appellation, for there really is nothing like it in Australia. Waters Wine Co

 

A blend of all the estate sites, except the small parcel making up the Beyond The Forest pinot. This needed a lot of time to unfurl, so best to decant it. It’ll then reward you with morello and sweet dark cherries, warm earth and sumac aromas. Full bodied, savoury with pleasing supple tannins. 95 points – Halliday Wine Companion

 

“Good depth and hue of colour, with a sandalwood aroma, liberal oak evident, over dark cherry fruit which built in fragrance with time in the glass. The palate is elegantly structured and refined, with intense and focused flavour augmented by fine and firm tannins, the finish extending very long. A tensioned pinot, rich in sweet cherry fruit, that is excellent now but promises more in the future.” 96 points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review

 

“The 2022 Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir is spicy and fine on the nose, with cherry pip, raspberry leaf, crushed rocks, pumice stone tannins and black tea. In the mouth, the wine is all about rose petals and iron, silty tannins and lashings of blood plum skin, with violets and Pink Lady apples, rosemary, blood orange, arnica and a very gentle amaro persuasion. A light finish is made persistent by enduring tannins that chew and sway. It’s so nice. Distinct. It’s easy to swoon somewhat over the packaging, which is not important to wine quality but an indication of aesthetics. It matured for 18 months in Stockinger casks (50% new) and was bottled in January 2024. 13.2% alcohol, sealed under Diam.” 94+ points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate 

 

Place of Changing Winds is roughly equidistant between Mount Macedon and Mount Bullengarook, hence the name of this cuvée, which is essentially the most representative Pinot of the season. It’s a fine, textural Pinot produced from all the estate’s plots (including the highest-density vines), save what went into the tiny Beyond the Forest cuvée. It spent 18 months maturing in Stockinger casks with 50% new oak (although this new component was a 1,000 cask, so it has very little impact). It’s a wine that will drink well young and has significant cellaring potential. It was bottled in January 2024.

Alcohol: 13.2%. Closure: Diam 30. Only 2,564 bottles and 24 magnums produced.

 

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