New Benchmark Release from Geelong's Iconic 50yo vineyard.
"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.
Please email your order for 6-Packs to sales@randalls.net.au
2025 Estate Chardonnay
$75 | Offer: $69 Singles | $67 in Straight or Mixed 6
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$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 Estate Pinot Noir
$75 | Offer: $69 Singles | $67 in Straight or Mixed 6
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$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
