Aussie Pinot Picks | 7 Greats at 7 Different Pricepoints

Weekly Super Special: Label-Damaged Clearance

What with last week's torrential rain, we unfortunately experienced some leak in the warehouse which wet the boxes of our most popular Picpoul. Fortunate for you, this means a label-damaged priced “to sell” super special!

2022 Le Jade Picpoul de Pinet (The "Chablis" of the South)
Label Damaged

$32 | Offer: $19 | $15 in 6-Packs

This is a crisp, zesty white wine from the picpoul grape grown in Pinet (the Languedoc region), known for its bright acidity and refreshing notes of green apple, citrus, and sea spray. Perfect for pairing with oysters and seafood, it offers a lively, mineral-driven finish that captures the essence of the Mediterranean coast, along with a nuance of honey (even though it's totally dry) from a little bottle age.

2025 Wickhams Road Pinot Noir
Offer: $19.90

"Sprightly and sleek, a wine of long, clean lines and invigorating freshness. Neatly detailed on the nose; a raft of sour cherry, strawberry and rubbed sage aromatics. Lithe and slippery in the mouth, the fruit deftly weighted and polished. Athletic rather than muscular, tapered by microfine tannins." 94Pts. - Nick Ryan, The Australian

2025 Bellvale Gippsland Pinot Noir
Offer: $35.90

"... a light-and-insistent style but there’s plenty going on and it’s beautifully well sustained. Flavour-wise this wine is built on fruit and undergrowth with spice, orange rind and earth-like notes studded within. It has (fine) tannin, it has texture, it has X-factor." 94Pts. - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

2025 Gembrook Hill Estate Pinot Noir
Offer: $68

"100% destemmed, four weeks on skins, matured in hogsheads (20% new). Medium, bright crimson. An extremely perfumed and pure-fruited wine, redolent of freshly poached strawberry, rose petal and baking spices. Even better on the palate; richly flavoured yet light on its feet, with a medium-bodied frame and wonderfully silky and persistent tannins. Finishes long. One of those wines that is delicious straight from the gate but will age beautifully, too." 97+Pts. - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

2025 Decades Coal River Pinot Noir
Offer: $79
Winner of Best Australian Pinot Noir at the 2026 Pinot Challenge
2x 2027 Halliday Awards: Best New Winery + Winemaker of the Year

This highly praised Pinot comes frpom the esteemed, ever-improving Steve Flamsteed. A more focused, expansive-thinking, hard-working vigneron is almost impossible to find (I’m not sure that there is one). I tasted this Decades’ Pinot a few weeks ago at a Pinot conference with Flammo (and I love Coal River pinots). After tasting good and great pinots all day, this looked really pure, perfumed, silky (but not a light weight) fresh, crunchy, juicy, complex and long. Try some while you can!

2025 Bannockburn Serre Pinot Noir
Offer: $119 | $106 in Straight or Mixed 6-Packs
$252 In-Magnum

"Serré, planted in 1984 and extended in 1986, certified organic in 2021, planted to 1.2m x 1.2m vine spacing.”

This release is both powerful and taut. It’s also noticeably mineral, which helps give it that something extra. It offers a concentrated burst of dark cherry flavour, diving into plum, into rust, ground spice and sweet earth. It’s one of those wines that seems to hold onto you, once you take a sip, such is its grip and its authority. The fruit itself wears a corduroy shirt of cedarwood, slim-fit; the body beneath is guns out; muscular and lithe. This is serious stuff, and seriously good."
96Pts - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

2024 Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir
Offer: $265

The Estate is no more than 30km away from Bass Strait and this excellent wine smells oceanic – of ferrous and iodine. It's quite compelling. Then dark cherries, warm earth, autumn leaves and a hint of exotic spices appear. Very savoury. The palate is a textural delight, deep and concentrated with bold flavours, yet has energy and drive. Plentiful, fine-grained tannins allow everything to end on a high note."
97Pts - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion