Stats
- Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
- Vineyard: Bindi Estate Vineyard - Original Vineyard
- Vine Age: 35-years-old
- Soil Type: Shattered quartz & eroded volcanic topsoil and sandstone over clay
- Viticulture: Practicing Organic
- Fermentation: Native - open-top stainless steel (100% whole-berry)
- Skin Contact: 14 days
- Aging: 15 months in French barrique (33% new)
- Alcohol: 12.6%
- pH: 3.71
- Total Acidity: 5.3 g/L
- Total SO2: 46 ppm
- Total Production: 150 cases
- UPC: None
Tasting Note
The 2022 is super pure in red cherry, raspberry and ripe strawberry aromas. It is typically floral and gently spicy, a little herbal and very seductive. The palate is fresh, creamy, savory, has fine tannins driving the supple and smooth fruit and flows beautifully long.
Press & Reviews
The Wine Front
94
"Planted in 1988. One third new oak. Interesting producer of Pinot Noir, is Bindi, wines with plenty of character, although most often you have to like them on the sappy side, that being said, the 2021 Block 5 was incredibly good. And the Chardonnay wines are usually terrific. Review of 2022 Quartz to come.
Red cherry, sweet strawberry, Campari/burnt orange peel, baking spices, cedar, a fair bit of mint too. It’s all sweet poached strawberry infused with spice and orange oil, a bit sappy and minty, kind of juicy and glossy too, a fine graphite grip to tannin, ripe tomato on a finish of good length. It’s a specific style of wine, distinctly Macedon/Australian, and the shape of it is very good. It’s a bit too minty/gum leafy for my tastes, though it’s a wine of distinct character for sure."
- Gary Walsh
Red cherry, sweet strawberry, Campari/burnt orange peel, baking spices, cedar, a fair bit of mint too. It’s all sweet poached strawberry infused with spice and orange oil, a bit sappy and minty, kind of juicy and glossy too, a fine graphite grip to tannin, ripe tomato on a finish of good length. It’s a specific style of wine, distinctly Macedon/Australian, and the shape of it is very good. It’s a bit too minty/gum leafy for my tastes, though it’s a wine of distinct character for sure."
- Gary Walsh