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Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024

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Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024
  • Huon Hooke
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  • Halliday's Wine Companion
    97 Points
Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024
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Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024

SKU: BPPN202411 UCAU
Biodynamic
15 Plus Years
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Established by Phillip Jones in 1979, Bass Phillip is renowned for producing some of the best pinot noir in Australia.

Medium to deep red/purple colour,with rich and intense smoky dark-cherry aromas, leading into a gorgeously flavoured and balanced palate of intensity and supple texture, highest quality tannins while the fruit sweetness in the mid-palate is delicious, the silky texture persisting right to the end.

The wines have great cellaring potential, or be equally enjoyable in their youth.

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Tasting Notes

Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024 exemplifies the pinnacle of Australian winemaking, crafted by the esteemed Bass Phillip winery, established by Phillip Jones in 1979. Renowned for producing some of the finest Pinot Noir in Australia, this vintage delivers an exceptional balance of complexity and elegance, showcasing the depth and nuance that have become synonymous with the Bass Phillip name.

This wine exhibits a medium to deep red-purple color that immediately captivates the eye. On the nose, it unfolds rich and intense smoky dark-cherry aromas, inviting the senses into a world of layered fragrance and sophistication. The palate is gorgeously flavoured, combining intensity with a supple texture that highlights the highest quality tannins. The interplay between the silky tannic structure and the fruit sweetness in the mid-palate results in a harmonious and deliciously persistent finish.

Known for its remarkable cellaring potential, Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024 can be aged gracefully to develop even greater complexity. However, it also offers immediate pleasure with its vibrant fruit character and refined texture, making it equally enjoyable in its youth. This versatility allows it to be savored now or carefully stored to evolve over time.

Crafted from premium grapes, this Pinot Noir reflects the unique terroir and meticulous winemaking practices that define the Mornington Peninsula region, renowned for its cool climate and ideal conditions for cultivating delicate yet powerful Pinot Noir grapes. The 2024 vintage continues this tradition, delivering a wine that is both a testament to the region's terroir and Bass Phillip's unrelenting commitment to excellence.

Ideal for collectors and connoisseurs alike, Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024 stands as a true representation of Australian premium Pinot Noir, combining intense fruit concentration, refined balance, and a luxurious mouthfeel. Its rich complexity and elegant structure make it a perfect match for a diverse range of gourmet dishes or as a distinguished addition to any fine wine collection.

Critic Scores

Deep ruby to garnet with bold, bright red cherry to red plum and Campari aromas, laced with broken rock mineral nuances, the palate firm and tense with grip and serious intent, and took a while to open up and reveal its wonderful display of fruit. Firm and somewhat shy at first pour, with oak still evident, it has great depth and should reveal even more if given time. Pour it into as big-bowl glass.

The Estate is no more than 30km away from Bass Strait and this excellent wine smells oceanic – of ferrous and iodine. It's quite compelling. Then dark cherries, warm earth, autumn leaves and a hint of exotic spices appear. Very savoury. The palate is a textural delight, deep and concentrated with bold flavours, yet has energy and drive. Plentiful, fine-grained tannins allow everything to end on a high note." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

Vinification & Cultivation

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Vineyard Cultivation

Bass Phillip, founded by Phillip Jones in 1979 at Leongatha in South Gippsland, is one of Australia's most celebrated Pinot Noir estates. Since 2020 it has been owned by Burgundy vigneron Jean-Marie Fourrier, who has continued the low-yielding, close-planted estate vineyards on free-draining loam over clay in this cool, maritime pocket. The Premium is a selection of the finest estate barrels. The 2024 Gippsland season yielded fruit of medium to deep colour and real intensity, giving smoky dark-cherry aromatics and a firm, tightly structured palate with fine tannin and persistent, silky texture built for cellaring.

Vinification

Bunches are sorted on a table, then passed through an incline destemmer sending whole berries to open fermenters with minimal sulphur. A natural ferment begins within a few days, with hand-plunging until pressing at ten to fourteen days; the pressings are combined with free-run, settled, then gravity-racked to barrel. Malolactic fermentation occurs naturally in barrel. The Premium selection was matured for fourteen months in tight-grain, light-toast French oak barriques, of which 36% were new for this release, before gravity decanting off lees. Barrels are topped and monitored throughout.

About this Wine

Pinot Noir

A thin-skinned red grape known for its light body, red fruit character, and sensitivity to terroir, grown around the world.

Victoria

The wine region of Victoria has the highest number of grape vines than any other state in Australia. It is home to over 600 wineries and well known regions such as Yarra valley, Heathcote, and Rutherglen. Victoria is situated in the southeastern corner of Australia where due to the location, the climate has a cool maritime influence and is known for their outstanding Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, along with producing Australia’s most famed dessert Muscat and Topaque wines.

There are a number of different terroir levels throughout the wine region of Victoria which leads to the production of different ranges of wines. In the southern region of Victoria, the vines are regulated by the cool winds of the Bass Strait. Central Victoria consists of mostly flat terrain that tends to be drier and warmer than the rest of Victoria, which results in more fruit concentrated wines. It may be surprising to note that Victoria is the third most productive wine region in Australia, seeing as it does not have as many areas suitable for viticulture, which has resulted in the cellar door culture of Victoria being concentrated with smaller, but more personal boutique wineries.

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