2025 Avon Pinot Noir
Xavier Goodridge, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
The flagship single-site pinot: one hectare of 1987 MV6 vines at Maffra, wild fermented over 25 days and aged ten months in French barriques. Concentrated red fruit with silky tannin.
- Site
- Avon Vineyard, Maffra (single hectare of MV6)
- Region
- Gippsland, Victoria
- Vine age
- Planted 1987
- Harvest
- Hand picked into 15 kg baskets, hand sorted
- Fermentation
- Destemmed; wild ferment over 25 days
- Ageing
- 10 months in French oak barriques (about 30% new)
Tasting Notes
Complex, classic and perfumed nose of wild raspberry and black cherry with an All Spice twist and a whole lot of brooding intensity. Vivid and textured on the palate with subtle, juicy, rippling tannins and a long, creamy finish.
Distributed in Australia by Principal Wine.