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Ochota Barrels

2025

‘Impeccable Disorder’

Pinot Noir   |   Adelaide Hills - Australia
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About

Impeccable Disorder is pure energetic paranoia, a Pinot Noir that defies the Adelaide Hills in many ways, yet couldn’t be made from fruit anywhere else. It’s a vociferous Pinot Noir loaded with introspection – the label is evocative, featuring Taras strapped to a chair with a TV taped to his head. This image was featured on Taras’ first album with the 90s punk band ‘Kranktus’ and this intense punk sound was created from the most brooding and rustic parcels of Sam Virgara’s and his farmer Laurence Scanlon’s blocks in the cool Piccadilly Valley. It is one of the highest-altitude and cooler winegrowing regions in Australia (1300-1950ft).

The grapes were hand-picked and tossed into open-top fermenters (60% whole cluster for this vintage) with fermentation kicking off naturally. Two weeks on skins plus the increase in whole-clusters from the few previous vintages, really ramped up the texture. The grapes were basket-pressed directly to one old and one new French oak barrique for aging. After seven months the wine was racked and settled naturally, then bottled with a small dose of sulfur and a coarse filtration. No fining.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
  • Vineyard: Scanlon Vineyard & Sam Virgara's vineyard (Piccadilly Valley)
  • Vine Age: 20-25-years-old
  • Soil Type: Shallow, fractured clay over limestone
  • Viticulture: Practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native — open-top fermenters (60% whole-bunch)
  • Skin Contact: 14 days
  • Aging: 7 months in old French barriques and one new Chassin barrique
  • Alcohol: 13.9%
  • pH: 3.75
  • Total Acidity: 4.7 g/L
  • Total SO2: 64 ppm
  • Total Production: 52 cases
  • SRP: $129.99

Tasting Notes

Rustic and brooding, the thunderstorm to A Forest’s spring rain. Wild boysenberries, sour black cherry, and thyme A meld with the whiff of a freshly struck match against a freshly rolled cigarette. This glides into a cool, weightless arc, as if the wine is leaning on air. The texture is whisper-thin yet soulful, briny and melodic, like a song fading but never ending. It’s Pinot Noir as a haiku: precise, fleeting, unforgettable.

Press & Reviews

The Halliday Wine Companion

95

"Invariably, a wine of beauty meets power; this vintage is no exception. I admire the calibration of the fruit, which rests in realms of amaro, kirsch, wild woody herbs, plum and black cherry. Poise and restraint on the palate with far-reaching acidity, bringing the deeper fruits to the surface for air. Spice, fenugreek and cinnamon season the ends. A beautiful wine for quiet rooms and contemplative company."
- Katrina Butler
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Ochota Barrels

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Adelaide Hills

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Australia

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