2025 Bannockburn Release: A Vintage of New Heights

Book Now - New Arrivals Container Tasting
Evening of Tuesday, 9 June: 6:30-8:00pm

$109 per head

Where: Old Railway Hotel "Front Bar"
AKA Sausages Made Simple Salumeria, 118 Ireland St, West Melbourne

Please join us on Tuesday 9 June for a casual ('sit down") tasting at the U Bar. With a small plate of salumi at your side, you’ll taste through a line-up of new arrivals ex-ship, including but not limited to:

2024 Keller, Rheinhessen - Rare Pinot Noir Reserve
2024 Picq, Chablis
2024 Denis Race, Chablis
2023 Albert Grivault, Meursault
2022 Jean Grivot, Burgundy
2022 Ch. Cissac, Bordeaux
2024 Ch Thivin, Beaujolais
2024 Dom. de l'Aste, Burgundy
Multiple wines from many of these fine producers,
+ More!

Randall will chat about regions, terroirs, vintages, and the characters behind the bottles — and, true to form, he’ll finish the night with a special surprise from the cellar.

Only 14 seats available now, so get in quick! sales@randalls.net.au

New from Geelong's benchmark 50yo vineyard.

2025 Bannockburn: "If this Pinot, Chardonnay and Gamay 2025 are not the greatest ever, there are none we have ever made that are better!"
- Gus pollard, GM Bannockburn Vineyards.

I've tasted these three new release wines and I can confirm that they are stunning, and Bannockburn has most probably never made better (and that's stating a lot!). It was the earliest vintage to date, a warm and steady harvest where all varieties ripened at different times and the hand-picking and grape processing took place in a measured, well-planned way, which is a luxury winemakers love but rarely get! It started on St. Valentine's day and was finished about a month later on St. Pat's day. It's a vintage blessed by the saints!

As many of you know, I'm a white burgundy lover, and this new Bannockburn Chardonnay just blows me away for its value and a burgundy-like density and weight with nuanced complexities and satisfying ageability. I can't wait to taste this in 10 years, and I can't wait to taste another bottle next week!

The Pinot is bigger and more powerful than usual, and yes as stated, probably the best ever. The Gamay is impressively dark and surprisingly flavoursome, with its whole-bunch savoury / herbal edge and the deep well of fruit supporting each other. Bravo Bannockburn.Cheers, Randall.

2025 Bannockburn Chardonnay
$75 | Offer: $69 Singles | $67 in Straight 6

$149 in-Magnum

"There are yellow stone fruits characters here, and an array of sweet spice notes, but it’s the flesh, the rush and the juice of grapefruit and ripe pear flavours that both dominate and seduce. This wine really does make you dive quickly in for more. There’s a subtle smokiness, some tonic and mineral-like notes, and an especially noticeable (extra) linger to the finish. This is one of those wines where the acidity itself feels flushed with flavour. The aftertaste then adds some pebble-stone characters, just because it can. What a wine." 96 Pts. - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

2025 Bannockburn Pinot Noir
$75 | Offer: $69 Singles | $67 in Straight 6

$149 in-Magnum

"The first word that came to mind was unsweet. I’m not even sure that’s a word. This is a particularly earthen Pinot Noir with root vegetable characters running through black cherry, chicory, woodsmoke and fistfuls of roasted spices. I’m tempted to call this Pinot Noir for grown-ups but that’s a silly phrase so I’ll refrain. We get beautiful, fine-meshed, grapey tannin here, and sinewy characters, and a genuine, savoury push of flavour through the finish. I’m as certain as I can be that this wine will mature well."
95 Pts. - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

2025 Bannockburn Gamay
$46 | Offer: $44 Singles | $42 in Straight 6

"Bannockburn makes such good gamay. It’s grown on a 1.4 acre block planted in 2014. Absolutely pitch perfect. I mean, come on. It’s so bright and yet, at the same time, so well fruited; it has freshness and substance and luminance in equal and harmonious measure. Cherry-berry flavours, some blueberry, some blood orange and ferrous notes, and intricate stitchings of spice. Trace elements of herbs and smoked, roasted meats. A bit of gloss but a liveliness at the same time. Everything here is exactly the ticket." 94 Pts. - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

2021 Bannockburn Chardonnay Museum Stock

Offer: $92 Very Limited

A “museum” release and very low in stock now. This is still fresh and lively but showing a tiny touch of development in a very positive, classy sense.

'[..] True to the Bannockburn style, which offers both power and finesse. The former is set in structure and solid in body. The latter is all about a world of marvellous fruit and oak flavours...It's dense, lifted by a citrusy acidity that is just so cleansing, so right.' 95 Pts - Jeni Port, The Wine Companion

“The late Stuart Hooper had a deep love for the wines of Burgundy, and was able to drink the best. When he established Bannockburn, it was inevitable that pinot noir and chardonnay would form the major part of the plantings... Bannockburn is still owned by members of the Hooper family, who continue to respect Stuart’s strong belief in making wines that reflect the flavours of the certified-organic vineyard.” ★★★★★ Halliday Wine Companion

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