The Pinot Noir 2024
Matthew Jukes
UK based International Wine Journalist, Judge and Educator. One of the world's leading experts on Australian wine...
"this wine lives up to and, to my mind at this stage of its evolution in barrel, perhaps eclipses any other Pinot I have tasted from the Adelaide Hills..."
Shortly after flowering it was observed that 2024 would be a drastically small vintage. Windy, cool and rainy weather in late November resulted in a very poor grape set. In the cooler areas of Lenswood and Piccadilly, crops were down 65-70%.
To our surprise and delight, once grape maturity and testing started, we noted excellent colour, intensity and sugar acid balance – all indications of exceptional quality. These results held true across all Pinot vineyards and not just the cooler regions, a trend that was strongly reinforced when we started testing settled juice samples.
What had at first appeared as a looming disaster, now emerged a great opportunity. We believe 2024 produced the best parcels of Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir we have seen in the past 20 years. The Pinot Noir may not be produced again for some time until these exceptional conditions reoccur.
The decision was made to produce a limited number of bottles of this outstanding Pinot Noir vintage to be made available to a select group of our followers appreciative of a rare and outstanding Pinot Noir.
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