2024 Bream Creek Pinot Noir, Tasmania

Three trophies at the Royal Queensland Wine Show 2025 Grand Champion Wine, Best Red Wine and Best Pinot Noir  

Two trophies at the Cowra Wine Show 2025 Best Pinot Noir, Best Red Wine

The brilliant 2024 Pinot Noir Estate is packed with charm, offering waves of red cherry, dried spice and mushroom aromas with good density and tension. Refined and stylish on the palate, it delivers pretty rhubarb and spicy flavours wrapped in al dente tannins through a lengthy finish. Beautifully understated, with excellent aging potential. Drink to 2042.

94 points Angus Hughson for Vinous, July 2026

Ruby colour in the glass. A bright and aromatic nose. Red and black cherries, rose flower heart, baked ham depth, crushed thyme, boysenberry, clove spice and orange bitters. Supple, flowing and textured. There’s some muscle and heft to the palate with bitter cherry and cassis fruit, blanketed with kitchen herb spice. A long and persistent tail with plentiful flavour. It’s easy to see how this has been such a successful wine.

94 points Regan Drew for Wine Pilot, January 2026

Bream Creek Vineyard Pinot Noir from Tasmania is a vibrant, cool climate red that captures the wild beauty and finesse of the island’s southeast coast. Crafted from mature estate vines overlooking Marion Bay, this Pinot Noir is consistently regarded as one of Tasmania’s finest—layered, structured, and bursting with regional character.

Founded in 1974 and revitalised by Fred Peacock in the early 1990s, Bream Creek is one of Tasmania’s pioneering vineyards. With decades of experience and a deep understanding of the coastal terroir, Peacock has built a reputation for crafting Pinot Noir that balances intensity with elegance. The vineyard’s proximity to the ocean brings cooling sea breezes and extended ripening, allowing the fruit to develop complexity while retaining crisp acidity and fine tannins.

Grapes are handpicked and fermented in small batches, often with partial whole bunch inclusion to build aromatic lift and structure. The wine is matured in French oak barriques, typically with a modest percentage of new wood to support rather than dominate the fruit.

In the glass, Bream Creek Pinot Noir shows aromas of dark cherry, raspberry, dried rose, spice, and a subtle touch of forest floor. The palate is silky and medium bodied with concentrated red fruit, fine tannins, and a savoury edge that lingers through a long, mineral finish. It’s a wine that reflects the precision and poise of Tasmania’s best Pinot, capable of ageing gracefully for 8 to 12 years or more.

Ideal with duck confit, wild mushroom dishes, or grilled Tasmanian salmon, this Pinot Noir is a benchmark expression of Tasmania’s potential—refined, expressive, and deeply rooted in place.