Ten Minutes by Tractor takes its name from the roughly ten-minute tractor drive between the founding McCutcheon, Wallis and Judd vineyards on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, consolidated under proprietor Martin Spedding from 2004. The 10X is the estate's approachable regional Pinot, drawing on cool-climate sites across the Peninsula's elevated hinterland, where maritime influence, well-drained clay-loam and ferrous red soils give perfumed, medium-bodied fruit. Farming across the estate blocks is low-intervention in outlook. Mornington's cool 2025 season produced fragrant, fine-boned Pinot Noir, with red-cherry lift and a savoury spice backbone, gathered from parcels across the region for this generous, early-drinking style.

Handpicked fruit was hand-sorted and fermented in a mix of concrete, oak and stainless-steel vessels. Batches were cold-soaked around four days at 8C before wild fermentation, with light management through pump-overs and some plunging over roughly 14 to 18 days on skins. After pressing off the wine settled to barrel for a natural malolactic fermentation and was matured about ten months, with a modest portion (around 15%) new French oak in barriques and puncheons, before blending, gentle filtration and bottling. The gentle handling gives vibrant red cherry, raspberry compote and baking spice with fine, powdery tannins.