Eldridge Pinot Noir 2023

96 POINTS

Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion

Stylish new sage-green labels are the first obvious difference and the heavy bottles close to 1.6kg when full. That’s less impressive, but everything else is impressive, thanks to Steve Flamsteed leading the team. He’s a craftsman with pinot noir and chardonnay so all the good things are in this: dark cherries, fragrant forest-floor aromas, pomegranate and blood orange with woodsy spices. Fuller bodied but not weighty, as there’s a refinement here, fine tannins, too, with raspberry acidity making it feel vibrant and, yes, still very youthful. It’ll garner more complexity in time, but it’s moreish and hard to resist now.

95 POINTS

James Suckling

Savory aromas of dark cherries, dried strawberries, citrus peel, forest floor and pencil shavings. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and bright acidity, giving flavors of raspberry coulis, pomegranates and cassia bark. Nicely constructed, with a drying, persistent finish.

95 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

The 2024 has already been reviewed but here’s a review of the 20233, for the record. “We’ve gone for perfume. 2023 is a perfumed wine anyway, but we’re going for a perfumed style.” according to winemaker Steve Flamsteed. This is 50% whole bunches. Whole bunch gives lift but this wine is ultra strawberries in the truest sense of the word, in that it’s fresh strawberry rather than strawberry syrup. Smoked herbs, stones, hay and earth notes encase the whole, and compellingly so. There is so much elegance here but such an array too. This is beautiful. Slippery, twiggy, ripe, fresh, undergrowthy, a brand new box and a brand new dice. No bottle image available as yet.