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Stop the presses. Already an impressive Yarra Pinot, from the 2024 vintage this label has upped the stakes. It is now made from Toolangi’s E Block Pinot Noir, just 10 rows of 25-year-old MV6 clone vines identified as growing the property’s most impressive and expressive Pinot. These rows are a direct continuation of the Paul’s Lane parcel to the east, so Kaspar Hermann is convinced something unique is happening beneath the surface.
E-block delivers lower-than-average yields for this already moderate-yielding site, and the fruit holds markedly more drive and intensity. The fruit fermented with 50% bunches over 15 days before being pressed to used French oak barriques (just one new oak barrel accounts for 10%) for nine months’ maturation. Until 2024, this wine was labelled E-Block and cost twice as much. So, hear here you are getting all the wine at half the price. Philip Rich’s note below captures the wine well; it’s a bright, vivid, juicy, complex, single-vineyard Yarra Pinot from a great season, site and grower. Only 200 bottles made.