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"This 2024 Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir, from a tiny vineyard planted at very high density (15,000 vines/ha), opens slightly surly with a faint haze of reduction blurring the aromatic profile. Aeration reveals the significant depth the high density plantings have granted this wine: violets and deep red florals; then black cherry and compacted dark soil, together with faint echoes of dried orange peel, sage, and crushed granite. There is significant lift here as well as a wealth of veiled herbal and mineral aromatics that require coaxing from the glass. The palate is chiselled and focused up front, never really toeing over the line to medium-bodied; gaining weight and silken texture through to the middle then fanning pleasingly out with a sumptuous finish. Tarragon and Indies spices, red cherry and cranberry; couverture and walnut; then deeper, black fruits. There is a sense of array, a hand placing all the pieces in their correct order. Very fine.
Returning to the glass there are wonderful lingering aromatics of dried rose-petal (very bottom-of-the-rose-bush … one thinks of Savigny-les-Beaune), earth, and cranberry. A delight." — David
