2024 Dalrymple Pinot Noir

97 POINTS

DWWA 2026 - Decanter World Wine Awards

Tasmania's fifth appearance in our Best In Show selection is also its third Pinot Noir in as many years; two additional whites (a Riesling and a Chardonnay) were featured back in the 2017 and 2019 DWWA editions respectively. This wine is relatively deep in colour, with ample soft red fruit aromatic sweetness (cherries and strawberries); there are rose-petal floral notes, too, as well as cedar and graphite notes from fine-coopered oak. The 2024 vintage was mild and settled, with a generous ripening window, and the harmony and limpidity of flavour that comes from a season of that sort are much in evidence here. The Tasmanian difference, perhaps, is evident in a tightening towards the end of the palate as some sour cherry acidity creeps in to bring the flavour sweep towards a focused finish. A Pinot of style and verve. Award: Platinum Best In Show - DWWA 2026

95 POINTS

Dave Brookes - Halliday Wine Companion

Sourced from a block of 1990s-planted pinot noir in the Coal River Valley. Woah! I'm loving those struck-flint reduction tones in this year's release. I realise they can be polarising, but they make me go all gooey-eyed, especially like here, when they are matched to a core of pure red cherry, raspberry and wild strawberry fruits. There's hints of souk-like spice, leaf litter, pomegranate, amaro, orange blossom, roast game, crushed stone and an expression of citrus oil. Finely structured and a wicked saline seam of acidity, with boundless energy and verve at the back end.

92 POINTS

Angus Hughson - Vinous

The 2024 Pinot Noir Tasmania, made with fruit from north, central and southern Tasmania, is exotic and aromatic, bursting with scents of Middle Eastern spices and dried lavender against a backdrop of cranberry and raspberry. On the palate, it is light in weight, with fleshy, spiced flavours nicely offset by a well-handled whole-bunch grip. Elegant and restrained in style, it offers a delightful subtlety and a sustained, lingering red-fruited finish that keeps you coming back for more. Fabulous value.