2023 Giant Steps Applejack Pinot Noir
Giant Steps’ Applejack Pinot Noir 2023 goes back-to-back in
this category, having won here last year. That’s a feat.
This year’s release is outstanding for its polish, poise
and persistence.
Winery of the Year
The 2025 Halliday Wine Companion
&
Halliday 2025 Pinot Noir of the Year
98 points Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion
Named after the Applejack eucalypts that surround the vineyard, which was planted at Gladysdale in 1997 by Ray Guerin. Seven clones comprising 114, 115, MV6, D2V5, D5V15, Pommard and Abel. Whole bunches (40 per cent) and 20–25 per cent new French barriques. 2022 was a hard act to follow, but this superb wine gives it a shake. Exotic, aromatic and pure with its bouquet of wild strawberries, dark cherries, quince, spices and flowers. Densley packed, this saturates the palate, but, as always, it's light on its feet at the same time. Seamless tannins round out another benchmark for what's already a benchmark wine.
Giant Steps’ Applejack Pinot Noir 2023 goes back-to-back in
this category, having won here last year. That’s a feat.
This year’s release is outstanding for its polish, poise
and persistence.
Winery of the Year
The 2025 Halliday Wine Companion
&
Halliday 2025 Pinot Noir of the Year
98 points Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion
Named after the Applejack eucalypts that surround the vineyard, which was planted at Gladysdale in 1997 by Ray Guerin. Seven clones comprising 114, 115, MV6, D2V5, D5V15, Pommard and Abel. Whole bunches (40 per cent) and 20–25 per cent new French barriques. 2022 was a hard act to follow, but this superb wine gives it a shake. Exotic, aromatic and pure with its bouquet of wild strawberries, dark cherries, quince, spices and flowers. Densley packed, this saturates the palate, but, as always, it's light on its feet at the same time. Seamless tannins round out another benchmark for what's already a benchmark wine.
Giant Steps’ Applejack Pinot Noir 2023 goes back-to-back in
this category, having won here last year. That’s a feat.
This year’s release is outstanding for its polish, poise
and persistence.
Winery of the Year
The 2025 Halliday Wine Companion
&
Halliday 2025 Pinot Noir of the Year
98 points Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion
Named after the Applejack eucalypts that surround the vineyard, which was planted at Gladysdale in 1997 by Ray Guerin. Seven clones comprising 114, 115, MV6, D2V5, D5V15, Pommard and Abel. Whole bunches (40 per cent) and 20–25 per cent new French barriques. 2022 was a hard act to follow, but this superb wine gives it a shake. Exotic, aromatic and pure with its bouquet of wild strawberries, dark cherries, quince, spices and flowers. Densley packed, this saturates the palate, but, as always, it's light on its feet at the same time. Seamless tannins round out another benchmark for what's already a benchmark wine.
