2014 Kooyong Meres Pinot Noir, Mornington Peninsula

James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2017  This turns the screws on quality. It’s firm and varietally rich with meat, spice, black cherry and volleys of undergrowth and assorted earth notes. It’s as if it’s been borne up out of the ground. It’s savoury, smoky and sweet-fruited, but in the end it’s nothing but itself.96 points

Winefront, 19th January 2017 Campbell Mattinson The firm hand of quality. It blends iron and earth with dark, grunty fruit. It’s not dense or thick but there’s a fine brood to it. Meaty tannin completes the picture. Strikes a commanding pose. 93 points Australian Financial Review, Life and Leisure, 16-18 Sept 2016.

Tim White Smells fabulous: deep, woodsyforestpips, plus subtle oak cedariness. Super deep. Plenty happening on the tongue, too: sweet-sharp, wet and dry, dense and intense, with pips and poached pear. Chewy, edgy and carbon flecked. Should evolve well over the next few years. 95 (96) points