Taste through a line-up of trophy winning & Show
Champion Pinots… Most are sold out!
Including 15 Capital City Best Pinot Noir Trophies
3 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winners Canberra
2 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winners Sydney
2 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winners Brisbane
3 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winners Melbourne
1 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winner, Perth
2 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winners Hobart
2 Best Pinot Noir Trophy Winners Adelaide
5 Pinots went on to win Best Red of Show Trophies…
and 4 went on to win Champion Wine of Show!
Three of these Trophy Winning Wineries were also
awarded the James Halliday Winery of the Year in 2022, 2023 & 2025.…
and 2 were awarded The Wine Maker of the Year
Accolades.
Tasting: 3-5.30pm, 20 Pinot Noirs
(20 Glasses in front of each attendee)
with Nibbles $245
Saturday October 12th
Just some of the Trophies…
Bay of Fires 2021
Trophy - Best Pinot Noir National Wine Show of Australia 2023
Bream Creek 2023
Trophy Winner –Best Pinot Noir of Show, Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Red Wine of Show, Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Wine of Show , Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Royal Queensland Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Pinot Noir of Show, National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Red Wine of Show, National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Champion Wine of Show, National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Giant Steps Applejack 2023
James Halliday Pinot Noir of the Year 2025
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Canberra National Wine How 2024
Hardys Eileen Hardy 2021
Trophy – Champion Wine of Show, Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Trophy – Best 3 YO Pinot Noir of Show, Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Trophy Best Pinot Noir of Show, Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Trophy – Best Red Wine of Show, Royal Sydney Wine Show 2022
Trophy – Best Pinot Noir of Show, Royal Sydney Wine Show 2022
James Busby 2021,
Trophy – Best Pinot Noir, Adelaide 2022
Lowestoft La Maison Pinot 2022
Trophy Winner - Jimmy Watson Memorial for Most Outstanding Young Red Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2023
Trophy Winner - James Halliday Best Pinot Noir, Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2023
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir of Show, Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023
Lowestoft La Maison 2021
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir Royal Melbourne Show 2022
Lowestoft La Maison 2020
Trophy Winner – Pinot Noir of Show, National Wine Showof Australia 2021
Trophy Winner– James Halliday Best Pinot Noir, Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2021
Lowestoft Single Vineyard 2021
Trophy Winner - Grand Champion Wine of Show, Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Trophy Winner - Best Red Table Wine, Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir, Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Trophy Winner - Best Individual Vineyard Table Wine, Royal
Hobart Wine Show 2023
Lowestoft 2020
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Royal Hobart Wine Show 2021
Trophy Winner – Best Tasmanian Red Wine, Royal Hobart Wine Show
The Wine List
Ata Rangi 2020, Our price $122
Martinborough, New Zealand
Concentrated, complex pinot noir with cassis, blackberry, dark cherry, violet, wood smoke and savoury/dried herb flavours. Accessible now but with a proven history of ageing gracefully. Elegant wine with impressive power
98 Points Bob Campbell, The Real Review (January 2023)
A beautiful nose of sliced strawberries, crushed cherries, violets, grated nutmeg and a hint of white pepper. Some hibiscus, too. Supremely vibrant and perfumed with fine tannins that run the length of the medium-bodied palate. Textural. Ground spice and fresh fruit are intertwined, providing wonderful depth and complexity. So long as well. Seamless balance. Superb.
98 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com (October 2022)
Bass Philip Estate 2021, Our price $116
Gippsland, Victoria
An elegant style, almost gentle with every element from fruit and acidity to tannins neatly in place. It’s a complete wine. Red cherry accents, rose petals, charred radicchio and a host of spices for good measure. It continues to unfurl beautifully in the glass. As seamless as it gets thanks to superfine tannins and a powder puff of acidity.
95 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (July 2023)
Medium full ruby with a tinge of purple; the aromas are of red fruits, the profile lean and elegant, with bountiful drying tannins, and touches of foresty pinot mystery. The wine is lean and drying on the aftertaste. Nice elegant wine, worth a little cellaring also.
95 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review (July 2023)
Lovely purity of fruit here, with raspberries, sliced strawberries, oranges and hints of cinnamon stick and vanilla on the nose. Soft and creamy, medium-bodied, with a wealth of small red berry fruit dancing across the palate. Very fine tannins. Ripe and delicious.
94 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com (December 2023)
From fruit in Leongatha, planted in 1996. The nose has an iron-oxide lift, and the palate tingles with a fine pepperiness that seems to accentuate ripeness but also red fruit. There is tension and an edge of mouthwatering, pithy bitter liquorice. The body is fluid, slender and refreshing with a sense of depth that is most appetising. This spent 14 months in 20% new barrels.
94 Points Anne Krebiehl MW, Decanter (February 2023)
Bass Philip Premium 2022, Our price $270
Gippsland, Victoria
Very deep and bright red-purple hues, the bouquet deep and latent with dark cherry/blackberry and violet nuances, while the fruit is very intense on the palate, deep and concentrated with sumptuous ripe flavours of dark fruits backed by masses of fine-grained, drying tannins that refresh the finish and help extend the very long aftertaste. Impressive concentration and power: very ripe but also vibrant. It will richly reward cellaring. This has some wow factor.
97 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review (December 2023)
All up, this spends 14 months in French oak (36% new) and the outcome is an impressive wine. No wallflower as it’s rich, ripe, full-bodied and laden with aromas and flavours of dark cherries, florals, joss sticks, chinotto, baking spices and garrigue. Raw silk tannins flood the palate, so, too the sweet fruit; concentrated and powerful, yet there’s a succulence and vitality within. A lot to consider, including cellaring for a few years before drinking. And yet, for hedonists, there’s an innate beauty making this irresistible now.
97 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (May 2024)
Bay of Fires 2021, Our price $64
Tasmania
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir National Wine Show of Australia 2023
Gold, 97 Points - National Wine Show of Australia 2023
Gold - Sydney Royal Wine Show 2022
Gold - Hobart Royal Wine Show 2022
Pinot noir sourced from vineyards in the Coal River, Derwent and Tamar valleys. Fine, exotic spice hovers over pure cherry and macerated strawberry fruits, with hints of stewed rhubarb, mushroom risotto, forest floor and light, gamey notes. Fine, lacy acidity drives things along nicely. The wine lingers endearingly, gently fading with shades of spiced cherry, pressed flowers and roasting game meats. Lots to like here; drink or cellar over the medium term.
94 Points Dave Brooke, Halliday Wine Companion (December 2022)
Bindi Original Vineyard 2020, Our price $98
Wine Maker of the Year, James Halliday Wine Companion 2022
Macedon Ranges, Victoria
While there’s a lightness of touch here – and such a different shape across the palate this vintage – Original is a delight. Heady aromas, cherries and poached rhubarb, light herbal tones, earthy and almost thirst quenching. Mid weighted, with acidity the driver rather than tannin structure, which are nonetheless savoury and fine.
95 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2022)
Bream Creek 2023, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner –Best Pinot Noir of Show, Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Red Wine of Show, Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Wine of Show , Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Royal Queensland Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Pinot Noir of Show, National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Best Red Wine of Show, National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner –Champion Wine of Show, National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Gold - Royal Queensland Wine Show 2024
Gold - National Cool Climate Wine Show 2024
Gold - Sydney Royal Wine Show 2024
Gold – International Wine & Spirit Awards 2024
Lovely nose packed with dark fruit aromas. Bright fresh palate of cherry and dark plum flavours with a spicy edge. Delightful long silky tannins with a lingering finish.
94 Points, Wine Showcase Magazine (June 2024)
"Cherry, raspberry, kind of succulent, but fresh too, with some spice, perfume, and quiet autumnal notes. It’s medium-bodied, plenty of juicy cherry and raspberry flavour, spiced plum, a pleasing sort of floral mouth-perfume, fine-grained tannin, and a finish of very good length, a little twist of orange peel bitterness to close. I can’t quite decide on 93 or 94 points, but either way, it’s a strong vintage for this wine.”
93+ Points Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, (April 2024)
By Farr Sangreal 2022, Our price $122
Geelong, Victoria
Each vintage of Farrside pinot noir exhibits more masculinity, structure and savoury components, while deep meaty, spicy and mineral flavours also continue to evolve. A balanced array of red and black fruits, Farrside pinot noir is fresh and edgy with bucketloads of character. This is a firm yet delicate wine with a long-textured finish.
Winery Notes
Dry River 2021, Our Price $132
Martinborough, New Zealand
Intense, dense pinot noir with cassis, black cherry, blackcurrant, liquorice and classy oak characters with a drop-dead gorgeous silken texture. Very impressive wine indeed. A very small yield which partly explains the concentration. Gently handled with a small amount of whole-bunch and light pump-overs to avoid over-extraction. Unfined and unfiltered.
98 Points Bob Campbell, The Real Review (September 2022)
Felton Road Block 3 2023, Our price $145
Central Otago, New Zealand
Giant Steps Applejack 2023, Our price $95
Winery of Year, James Halliday Wine Companion 2025
James Halliday Pinot Noir of the Year 2025
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Canberra National Wine How 2024
Gold – Canberra National Wine Show 2024
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.
98 Points Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion
Hardys Eileen Hardy 2021, Our price $117
Yarra Valley, Tasmania
Trophy Winner – Champion Wine of Show, Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner – Best 3 YO Pinot Noir of Show, Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir of Show, Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Gold - Tasmanian Wine Show 2024
Trophy Winner – Best Red Wine of Show, Royal Sydney Wine Show 2022
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir of Show, Royal Sydney Wine Show 2022
Gold - Sydney Royal Wine Show 2022
Deep-ish red purple, an excellent pinot noir colour, while the bouquet is reserved and dark-cherried, shy and a tad undeveloped but promising more. It's the same in the mouth, quite robust black cherry, and spice with a touch of oak, the finish firm and solid with liberal tannin, good density, and weight. It needs a year and has the makings of an excellent bottle of pinot.
95 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review (June 2022)
Round and fluid, a sense of charry oak lends a savoury hand against the core of ripe red and black berries. Subtle aromas of rosemary and mulch emerge. The acidity is cleansing, and the tannins are fine and framing. This offers complexity and vibrancy; with age it will develop layers and character. It reverberates across the palate, a nod towards its excellent Tassie fruit source.
95 Points Gabrielle Poy, The Real Review (August 2022)
Only produced in the best of years, this is the first release since 2014. Made by the Bay of Fires winemaking team from predominately Coal River Valley fruit (56%). Dreamy, creamy oak flits above bright red cherry fruits with underlying notes of fine spice, forest floor and mushroom broth. Very much an acid-driven wine, with a fine structure and sapid exit that tends to savoury with time in the mouth.
94 Points Dave Brooke, Halliday Wine Companion (January 2023)
James Busby 2021, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2022
Gold - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2022
Gold Medal - Perth Royal Wine Awards 2022
Lowestoft La Maison 2022, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner - Jimmy Watson Memorial for Most Outstanding Young Red Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2023
Trophy Winner - James Halliday Best Pinot Noir, Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2023
Gold - Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2023
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir of Show, Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023
Gold - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023
Gold – Australia Pinot Noir Challenge 2023
Boom! You'll probably have to scurry around to secure some bottles of this, as it won the coveted Jimmy Watson Trophy at the 2023 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards, but it is worth the hunt. It's a beautiful wine with a brilliant ruby hue in the glass and aromas of ripe dark cherry, dried cranberry and raspberry coulis underlined by hints of souk-like spice, amaro herbs from the whole-bunch component, pomegranate, tea leaves, char siu, dried citrus rind, sage and Peking duck. Wonderfully composed and silken on the palate with pitch-perfect fruit expression and bunch tannins; textural and complex with a lacy, mineral acid cadence and a finish that lingers for a long time with exotic spice and pure red and dark fruits. Such a beauty.
98 Points Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2024)
The most sublime Australian Pinot Noir I have ever tasted. After I named the 2020 vintage of Pinot Noir of the Year in the Halliday Wine Companion, if it wasn't already clear that the old Pinot vines of the Lowestoft vineyard are among the finest in the country, the 2023 Jimmy Watson for the 2022 confirmed it. There is a resolute confidence to this site, intricately preserved by Liam McElhinney and his team. Deep black fruit complexity lifted violet and rose petal perfume, evocative exotic spice, velvet-fine tannins and brilliant natural acidity.
Tyson Stelzer Wine Business Magazine
Lowestoft La Maison 2021, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir Royal Melbourne Show 2022
Gold - Royal Melbourne Show 2022
Gold- Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2023
Pinot noir from the close-planted vines (8300 per hectare) at Lowestoft planted in 1986; matured in French oak (35% new) for 10 months. Pure red plum and dark cherry fruits strut their stuff here with hints of five-spice, sous bois, dried raspberry, cranberry, black tea and vanilla, with light roast game further in the distance. Savoury and true with excellent fruit depth and purity, chalky tannins providing support. I'd expect this to cellar admirably.
96 Points Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion (July 2023)
Lowestoft La Maison 2020, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner – Pinot Noir of Show, National Wine Show of Australia 2021
Trophy Winner– James Halliday Best Pinot Noir, Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2021
Top Gold – National Wine Show of Australia 2021
Gold – Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2021
Gold – Melbourne Royal Wine Awards 2021
Up to 50% whole bunches; gentle hand plunging; matured 10 months in (25% new) large-format French oak. The 2020 vintage secures Lowestoft among Tasmania's A-league, but it's going to be a long time before the full magnificence of its flagship is realised. The coiled potential on display here is something to behold, with pristine and precise black and red cherry fruit intricately woven with the perfumed allure of whole bunches and the fine-grained framework of top-class French oak. Brilliant.
96 Points Tyson Steltzer, Halliday Wine Companion (May 2022)
The 2020 La Maison Pinot Noir is complex and spicy from the very first. Layers of orange rind, clove, star anise, Earl Grey tea and saffron/turmeric (in the range of yellow spices) jostle with the expected (but no less welcome) cherry, cranberry, redcurrant and pomegranate. The tannins, once in the mouth, feel chalky/dusty/chewy, almost... a plume, rather than a wall. This is a beautiful wine that is graceful, powerful and detailed. Very good.
95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (March 2023)
Lowestoft 2020, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner – Best Pinot Noir, Royal Hobart Wine Show 2021
Trophy Winner – Best Tasmanian Red Wine, Royal Hobart Wine Show 2021
Gold - Royal Hobart Wine Show 2021
Gold - Royal Melbourne Wine Awards 2022
Gold - Royal Melbourne Wine Awards 2021
Gold - National Wine Show of Australia 2021
Hand-picked fruit from the Lower Derwent Valley; up to 25% whole bunches; gentle hand plunging and occasional pumpovers. Matured 10 months in 30% new, large-format French oak. Stunning Derwent Valley pinot noir of grace and beauty. Varietally exact red and black cherry fruits are the theme, amplified and never distracted by skilful, subtle work with whole bunches and French oak. Great potential. Purity, class and joy!
95 Points Tyson Steltzer, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2022)
Lowestoft Single Vineyard 2021, Our price $
Tasmania
Trophy Winner - Grand Champion Wine of Show, Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Trophy Winner - Best Red Table Wine, Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Trophy Winner - Best Pinot Noir, Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Gold - Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2022
Trophy Winner - Best Individual Vineyard Table Wine,
Royal Hobart Wine Show 2023
Gold - Royal Hobart Wine Show 2023
Gold - Australian Pinot Noir Challenge 2023
Gold - Global Pinot Noir Masters 2024
Gold - National Wine Show of Australia 2024
Gold - National Wine Show of Australia 2023
Gold - Royal Queensland Wine Awards 2023
Pinot noir sourced from the Woodlands vineyard in the Coal River Valley. Bright cherry fruit studded with spice, pomegranate, pressed flowers, cranberry, mountain herbs and subtle undergrowth at the core. There is a pleasing depth to the dark cherry and wild strawberry fruits with fine powdery tannins, a bright mineral-laden line and a composed, savoury swish of the tail on the exit.
95 Points Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion (July 2023)
Picardy Tête de Cuvée 2021 Our Price $107
Pemberton, WA
So, here’s the thing. The ’20 Tete was the wine Bill Pannell was waiting for most of his life. It was a wonderful wine. But the ’21 comes along and delivers a wine of equal class and refinement, but in a slightly prettier more seductive and alluring form, a product of this cooler year. Complex weave of aromas with a truffle-like subtle earth merging seamlessly with the primary dark cherry and light raspberry primary fruit characters. The palate has a deep fruit intensity, but the fine-grained oak and slightly chalky tannins pull it back to focus with precision to a long linear palate. So much promise here.
97 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
Pooley Oronsay Cooinda Vale 2022, Our price $135
Tasmania
Halliday Wine Companion Winery of The Year 2023
Pinot noir sourced from the 1985-planted Cooinda Vale vineyard; 100% whole bunches, matured in French oak (40% new) for 14 months. A beautifully composed wine that frames the site perfectly with elegant tones of dark cherry, wild strawberry, kirsch, cedar, sous bois, amaro herbs, earth, shiitake broth and light game and dried meat notes. Restrained and nicely poised with plenty of detailed sultry spiced dark fruits, gentle powdery tannin and an umami-rich acid line. What really impresses me is how subtle and composed the wine is, very comfortable in its own skin and gorgeous drinking.
96 Points Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion.
Shepherd’s Hut Reserve, Michael Mayo 2023, Our price $55
Porongurup, WA
Trophy - Wine Show of WA Best Pinot Noir
Yarra Yering Carrodus 2021, Our price $263
Winery of Year, James Halliday Wine Companion 2022
Yarra Valley, SA
Medium-light purple-red colour, bright and youthful, the bouquet likewise fresh and bright red-cherry, raspberry aromas, clean and fruit-driven. Intense, penetrating, finely-tuned and precise palate with tightly focused middle-palate flavour, great purity of cherry fruit flavour, a sweet-fruit core, and there's a seemingly impossible combination of refinement and plushness. Only medium bodied but concentrated and piercing. A pristine young pinot with a mighty future.
97 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review (May 2023)
Made from a small parcel planted in 1969. Whole berries with some stalk return, 35% new wood. A light, bright crimson. Perfumed and savoury with red and dark fruits together with some woodsy, stalk-influenced notes, too. There's an old-vine creaminess on the very well-balanced palate and ripe, persistent and velvety tannins rounding out a wine that can be confidently cellared for at least 10 years. 75 dozen made.
97 Points Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion (June 2023)