Mount Mary Pinot Noir 2023 (1500ml)

Mount Mary Pinot Noir 2023 (1500ml)Best Pinot Noir of the Year 2026 James Halliday Wine Companion Wine Awards Mount Mary is one of the iconic wineries of Australia and one of the jewels of the Yarra Valley. Their Pinot Noir is Yarra pinot at its finest, possessed of rare finesse and purity. The wine is typically medium bodied, with fragrant cherry and strawberry aromas and a vibrant, succulent palate of prodigious length. Production is minuscule. "Youthful with complex aromas of wild

and it will blossom given a little time

These are not wines that you typically open at release

Ground cinnamon

So much so that I’m expecting to find an iridescent blue and green feather somewhere around the house any minute

aged in large American barrels

"And he loved it

So careful are Wynn’s with this wine that only the best grapes are used – less than one percent of their finest cabernet qualifies as suitable for the John Riddoch

so he bought ours at the then Commissioner’s Rates – about $110 a ton for shiraz and $125 for cabernet

Matured in new French (65%) and American (35%) hogsheads for 21 months

fine loose-knit chocolaty tannins

"Richly concentrated

cedary chocolate and vanilla oak has a slightly cooked and smoky quality