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Wickhams Road Gippsland Pinot Noir 2025

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Wickhams Road Gippsland Pinot Noir 2025
Producer Hoddles Creek Estate
Region, Country Yarra Valley, Australia
Bottle Size 750ml
Case Size 12
Product Code 25526-750

Franco D’Anna and his team added this Gippsland vineyard to the Estate in 2011. The eight-hectare site is planted solely to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and the vines are almost 20 years old. The team visits the vineyard once a week, tending the vines with the same meticulous care as their Yarra Valley property. Like the home vineyard in the Yarra, this is a cool, free-draining site, and sheep run through the property in winter to keep grass and weeds under control. As always, the fruit was picked by hand in the cool of the morning. The wine spent a short maturation on lees after natural fermentation. 

Considering the site, farming and undeniable talent of D’Anna as a winemaker, Wickhams Road represents some of the best value in Australia today. There is never enough to go around, so it’s a case of grab it while you can.



Wickhams Road Gippsland Pinot Noir 2025

Reviews

Picked a touch earlier than normal due to onset of heat. I like this a lot. While the new Wickhams Road Tasmanian is my pick at this early juncture, this is the one with the most upside. A very bright crimson-ruby red. Savoury, with aromas of ripe strawberries, rose bush and spice. There's good depth, too, on the well-structured palate. I imagine this will be in its ideal drinking window six to 12 months from now.
94 points, Philip Rich, The Wine Companion
“Coiled and crouched, a wine that unfurls and reveals more with time. There’s more bass than the Yarra wine, more muscle, but certainly not heft. There’s a load of dark raspberry and rhubarb, a squeeze of blood orange, a lick of quandong tartness. The palate is supple, closed out with a puff of powdery tannins and fine acidity."
93 points, Nick Ryan, The Australian

Reviews

Picked a touch earlier than normal due to onset of heat. I like this a lot. While the new Wickhams Road Tasmanian is my pick at this early juncture, this is the one with the most upside. A very bright crimson-ruby red. Savoury, with aromas of ripe strawberries, rose bush and spice. There's good depth, too, on the well-structured palate. I imagine this will be in its ideal drinking window six to 12 months from now.
94 points, Philip Rich, The Wine Companion
“Coiled and crouched, a wine that unfurls and reveals more with time. There’s more bass than the Yarra wine, more muscle, but certainly not heft. There’s a load of dark raspberry and rhubarb, a squeeze of blood orange, a lick of quandong tartness. The palate is supple, closed out with a puff of powdery tannins and fine acidity."
93 points, Nick Ryan, The Australian

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