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Hoddles Creek Pinot Noir, Yarra Valley, 2023
All de-stemmed with no crushing. 30% new, 30% one year old and the rest in older barrels. Ruby bright. Red and black cherries, fringed by toast and vanilla. Very pure and elegant. Plenty of body for keeping. A banker, as ever.... Read More
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ColourRed
RegionYarra Valley
GrowerHoddles Creek
Grape VarietyPinot Noir
Vintage2023
ABV 13.2%
Bottle75cl
ClosureScrewcap
DietaryVegan
CodeHOD623
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir
Origins
- Ancient vine, perhaps 2,000 years old
Distant origins in France - first documented mention in France in 1375
Characteristics
- Finicky grape: notoriously difficult to grow (which is partly why it is hugely intriguing to New World...

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Hoddles Creek Pinot Noir, Yarra Valley, 2023
All de-stemmed with no crushing. 30% new, 30% one year old and the rest in older barrels. Ruby bright. Red and black cherries, fringed by toast and vanilla. Very pure and elegant. Plenty of body for keeping. A banker, as ever. Now-2028
"I...came home desperate forAustralian pinot noir, a variety that deserves more appreciation. The bottle I opened to slake that thirst is in my wines of the week". ... "Given the current price of proper pinot this gorgeous, fluent wine could be seen as a bargain", Victoria Moore, The Telegraph Magazine, 25th January 2025
“Fortuitously, in 1960, the D’Anna family had purchased a steeply forested 25ha property which in 1997 they set about planting. Almost overnight, glorious pinot noirs and chardonnays started to flow at prices that were irresistible – and still are.” James Halliday. One of the jewels of our portfolio: winemaker Franco D’Anna’s wines are hugely applauded both in Australia and whenever we send samples to journalists here. All vines are hand pruned and harvested; and all grapes are crushed at the family’s winery, constructed for the 2003 vintage. The family owns ten hectares of Pinot Noir (five clones) and six of Chardonnay, plus Pinot Gris and other reds, situated in the highest and coolest district of the Upper Yarra. Winemaking is determinedly non-interventionist: some whole bunches are put in the tank; all fermented with wild yeasts, without additions of enzymes or acid; and bottled without fining or filtration.
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