2024 Amen Break Central Otago Pinot Noir
Offer: $27.90 | $25 in Dozens!
This label is owned by the Harrop Bros. Matt and Steve (and families). Steve is based in North Otago’s Waitaki Valley, not far from the Central Otago sites that supply pinot noir for this wine. With decades of vineyard development and wine experience, Steve has a sharp eye for sourcing the right fruit at the right price — a skill that’s earned him quiet legend status in the trade.
Matt lives in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, where he grows grapes for his family label, Silentway.
The label is a musical nod to the iconic drum solo from “Amen, Brother” by The Winstons, but the wine itself is made by grapes grown in Bendigo on the famed Chinaman’s terrace (home to icons like Prophet’s Rock). This pinot tastes nothing like a sub-$30 wine. The colour is deep (for a pinot) and youthful, with an instantly expressive and smile inducing, enticingly aromatic nose of blue and red berries, ripe cherries and subtle floral notes (like violets). The palate flows on with plenty of fruit and ripe complexity, but a certain restraint that is sometimes missing in pinots of this region. There is good density and depth and a little herbal, Campari-like savory intricacy. This is really bursting with lovely fruit and some nice tannins in balance. We reckon it is even better than the ever popular 2023. Bravo Harrop brothers!
2016 Jean Grivot Vosne-Romanee 375mL Museum Half Bottles
Offer: $149 | Limited to 6!
Ex-Domaine and perfectly cellared - this is a top village wine from a top Burgundy producer, right in its drinking window!
"Fresher light purple, very pretty, light aromatics, floral. Then much more muscle on the palate. The quality of the fruit is really refined, the persistence is there, good tension. Fresh crunchy finish." 91 Pts. - Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy
