20 of Australasia’s
finest Pinot Noirs
Many of the Best Reviewed & Awarded.
Across the 20 Pinot Noirs, accolades include:
Highest pointed Pinot in Wine Companion 2026
Trophy - Best Pinot Brisbane 2024
Trophy - Best Pinot Sydney 2024
Trophy - Best Wine of Show Sydney 2024Trophy - Best Pinot Wine Show of WA 2025
Trophy - Best Pinot Wine Show of WA 2023
Pinot Noir of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion 2025
#1 of 81, 2023 Yarra Valley Pinot Noirs, The Real Review
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir in Australia -
(Champion Wine of Show),Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2025
Trophy - Best Yarra Valley Pinot Noir, AustralianPinot Noir Challenge 2025
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir, National Wine Show 2025
Trophy - Best Individual Vineyard Table Wine,Royal Hobart Wine Show 2024
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir, Royal Hobart Wine Show 2024
Pinot of the Year, Wine Companion Awards 2026
#2 of 67 2024 Pinot Noir from Central Otago,The Real Review
Trophy - Australian Red, InternationalWine Challenge, IWC, London, 2025
Trophy - Australian Pinot Noir, InternationalWine Challenge 2025
Gold Medal - International Wine Challenge 2025
#1 of 55 Tasmanian 2023 Pinot Noirs, Huon Hooke,The Real Review
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Monday January 26th
Tasting:
3:00pm-5:00pm,
20 of Australia’s Great Pinot Noirs + Delicious ‘Help yourself’ Cheese Platters
Tickets: $275.00
The Wine List
2024 3Drops Pinot Noir
It’s amazing how good some of these Great Southern wines have been from what was a very hot vintage. The slightly cooler environment seems to have suited them, and in this case, it has produced a wine that shows the plushness of pinot noir, with excellent structure from a fine thread of tannin, light oak, and the natural acidity so essential for this variety. It’s light-bodied, with a beautiful, perfumed bouquet and a sustained finish. A most attractive pinot.
93 Points - Ray Jordan
2021 Ata Rangi Pinot Noir
This is impeccably composed and seductively expressed, showing dark cherry, clove, thyme, and cedar characters on the nose with a gorgeous floral overtone.
99 Points - Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
2023 Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir
Full ruby with purple tints and the bouquet is earthy/broken rock, ferrous/iron-like qualities with a touch of oak adding a smoky, fivespice aroma note and aftertaste. The wine is deep and mouth-filling, showing good concentration and drive, muscle and grip, and an enduring aftertaste. A big, dramatic finish: a peacock's tail. Beautiful aromatics: a serious pinot noir indeed.
98 Points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review
2023 Bass Phillip Reserve Pinot Noir
98 Points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
#2 Pinot Noir in Australia 2026 Halliday Awards
There have been many great vintages of the Reserve but I can’t remember one having such clarity and precision, matched to a brightness of fruit. So, for me, the finest to date. What’s also pleasing is the clear delineation from the estate up to this, the flagship. It commands your attention yet it’s also welcoming and open knit. There’s a lot to unpack yet the package is complete; very spicy, with florals and sweet fruit, cedar, menthol, black cherries and kirsch. It ebbs and flows with aromas and flavours and filagree tannins (lots of them) with fine acidity all slinking across the fuller-bodied palate. There’s a suppleness that off-sets its latent power. Wow, what a wine! Unequivocally the benchmark.
2023 Bream Creek Pinot Noir
Bright ruby with inviting aromas of macerated red and dark cherry, wild strawberry and raspberry underscored with hints of five-spice, leaf litter, charcuterie, dried shiitake, rhubarb, drying meadow herbs, died citrus rind and gentle, creamy oak tones. There's a lovely balance and poise to this release; fruit pure and enduring, tannins powdery and pillowy and a bright mineral-laden cadence.
94 Points - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
2024 Bream Creek Reserve Pinot Noir
2024 Castle Rock Estate Diletti Pinot Noir
TROPHY, Best Pinot Noir, 2025 Wine Show of WA
Gold Medal, 2025 Wine Show of Western Australia
This is quite a different style from the standard Pinot from Castle Rock. There appears to be more winemaking influence, and after hand picking and whole bunch fermentation, the wine manages to produce lovely aromas of perfumed cherry and strawberry, but it is in the palate where the difference is manifest. The colour is quite a deal lighter, but there is immense power here with fine chalky tannins and a neatly integrated oak regime combining to carry the wine through to an endlessly long finish. This is a classy wine with the structure and the quality of fruit to handle extended cellaring, and it will be interesting to see how it evolves over the years
95 Points - Ray Jordan
2024 Felton Road Cornish Point Pinot Noir
Marvellously reviewed 2024 Felton Road Cornish Point Pinot from the excellent 2024 vintage.
Bob Campbell MW
2024 Felton Road Block 5 Pinot Noir
#2 of 67 2024 Pinot Noir from Central Otago, The Real Review
One of New Zealand’s finest ever Pinot Noirs. 19.2 points, JJ
Dark cherry and black raspberry lead to more brooding but very concentrated flavours of violet, coffee, cocoa and earthy minerality on the firmly structured and muscular palate. Currently closed and inward but with great length, this is clearly very serious with plenty of substance but it will need time to unclench and relax.
97 Points, Stephen Wong, The Real Review
2023 Giant Steps Applejack Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir of the Year, Halliday Wine Companion 2025
#1 of 81, 2023 Yarra Valley Pinot Noirs, The Real Review
Gold Medal - Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2024
”An Exquisite Pinot Noir” .
98 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
2024 Giant Steps Applejack Pinot Noir
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir in Australia - (Champion Wine of Show), Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2025
Trophy - Best Yarra Valley Pinot Noir, Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2025
Gold Medal - Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2025
98 Points, Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion
97 Points, James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
2021 Lowestoft Pinot Noir
Gold Medal - Royal Hobart Wine Show 2023
Gold Medal - Royal Hobart Wine Show 2022
Gold Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023
Gold Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2022
Gold Medal - Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2023
2023 Lowestoft La Maison Pinot Noir
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir, National Wine Show 2025
Trophy - Best Individual Vineyard Table Wine, Royal Hobart Wine Show 2024
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir, Royal Hobart Wine Show 2024
Gold Medal - Adelaide Wine Show 2024
Gold Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards 2025
Made with 100% whole cluster, pressed directly to 500L French oak puncheons (15% new) for 13 months. There's a lot going on here – all of it good. Bright red cherry, red plum and raspberry pip tones with hints of cocoa powder, pomegranate, Chinese barbecue joint, amaro, souk-like spice, leaf litter, struck flint, XO sauce, shiitake broth and earth. Pure and spicy red fruits, fine, powdery tannins and a mineral-laden acidity that seems to pull the flavours forward on the palate, finishing long, savoury and true with everything plumb and tickety boo. Just lovely.
96 Points, Dave Brookes, winecompanion.com.au
2023 Marchand & Burch Mount Barrow Pinot Noir
This is such a brilliant pinot with the structure, the prettiness and the palate feel you seek with this variety. Pretty it might be, but this has a tight structural core guiding it. The fragrances are all cherry and roses. The palate is deceptively powerful, almost belying its light colour. A tight thread of fine tannins weaves through supporting the intense red fruits. This is a high-class wine showing just how good this region is.
97 Points, Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Agreed. 18.7 Points and great value … JJ
2023 Mount Mary Pinot Noir
Pinot of the Year, Wine Companion Awards 2026
Bright purple. Youthful with complex aromas of wild strawberry, boysenberry, potpourri, star anise and a little Sichuan pepper, even. Even better on the palate where old vines and low yields have conspired (along with the winemaker, Sam Middleton) to produce a supremely textured, layered and flawlessly balanced wine. The tannins are silky and very persistent, and this will be worth both the money and time for those that still have some 10–20 years from now.
98 Points, Philip Rich, winecompanion.com.au
2022 Picardy Tête de Cuvée
Wow, this is something special…very special. This is at the pinnacle of the Pannell family’s quest for great pinot noir. The 2020 vintage is spoken of in hushed tones, yet this one is pushing it all the way. It was a little closed when tasted but you don’t have to look far to see its greatness. It’s a multi-clonal blend which contributes to its complexity and feel on so many levels. It’s exquisitely balanced and poised yet it carries an explosive payload of intensity and layered complexity.
99 Points, Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
2023 Pooley Jack Denis Pooley Single Vineyard Pinot Noir
Pooley's top-flight pinot noir sourced from the Cooinda Vale vineyard near Campania in the Coal River Valley; 5% whole cluster, matured for 11 months in 50% new French oak barriques. Beautiful aromas of dark plum and black cherry fruits daubed with hints of game meats, medina spice, raspberry pip, forest floor, dried porcini, wildflowers, dried citrus rind and sweet earth. Supple and elegant with a pure fruit flow, notes of charcuterie, chalky tannins and a wicked saline slip of acidity as the wine slowly trails off.
97 Points, Dave Brookes, winecompanion.com.au
2021 Rippon Tinkers Field Mature Vine Pinot Noir
The 2021 Tinker's Field Mature Vine Pinot Noir leads with its typical power and flow, underpinned by currents of mineral tannin and saline freshness. This has clarity and intensity and focus in a single hit, like the pointy tip of the spear. I love this wine each year, the seasonal overlay being just another aspect of it, which is almost forgotten between drinking other wines (I don't forget; we never forget) just how good it is. Like a retina focusing in response to bright light, like all sound shutting off from around, this is a wine of impact and tremendous grace. It thunders, in its way. And despite the fruit and supple ripeness of it, the highlight, undoubtedly for me, is the tannic shape of it. It bends and moves like an old tree in high wind. It's superb. The vines were planted from 1982 to 1989, all on their own roots and dry farmed, with no adjustments at must, and all ferments are wild.
98 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
2022 Shepherds Hut Michael Mayo
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir - Wine Show of WA 2023
Gold Medal - Wine Show of WA 2023
2023 Tolpuddle Pinot Noir
Trophy - Australian Red, International Wine Challenge 2025
Trophy - Australian Pinot Noir, International Wine Challenge 2025
Gold Medal - International Wine Challenge 2025
#1 of 55 Tasmanian 2023 Pinot Noirs, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
"If ever a new winery was born with blue blood in its veins, Tolpuddle would have to be it." James Halliday
Tolpuddle Vineyard is making arguably the greatest pinot noir in Australia." James Suckling
"This wine was recently shown by a respected Clare Valley winemaker at an options game, and it looked superb. It's so clearly like Tasmanian Pinot Noir fruit but powerful, balanced and sapid in its execution of flavor delivery. It's saturated, in fact. When it was revealed as being the Tolpuddle 2023 Pinot Noir, there were cries around the room of "of course!" and "wow!"… This is an enduring wine of sophistication and long-term aesthetic value."
96 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate