Bindi, at Gisborne in Victoria's Macedon Ranges, is a family estate farmed by Michael Dhillon on land his family has held since the 1950s. Block 8 is a densely planted parcel of Pinot Noir established in the mid-2000s on the property's characteristic ancient quartz-flecked clay-loam soils over buckshot gravel and Ordovician bedrock, one of Australia's cooler, higher pinot sites. Vineyards are worked with organic and low-intervention principles, dry-grown and low-yielding, with high vine density driving competition and concentration. The 2023 season was cool and low-yielding across the Macedon Ranges; Bindi released it alongside the 2024 because both crops were small, producing a wine of restraint and definition with firm, fine tannins.

Hand-picked at modest yields, the fruit was sorted and fermented in open vessels on indigenous yeasts, with a proportion of whole bunches used in the Bindi manner to add spice and structure. Fermentation was worked gently by hand with the cool ferment extending gently to preserve perfume and build refined tannin. After pressing, the wine went to French oak barriques, a portion new, where it completed malolactic fermentation and matured on lees. Block 8 is typically held around fifteen to eighteen months in barrel before bottling with minimal fining or filtration, giving a structured, age-worthy Pinot. Precise whole-bunch and new-oak percentages for 2023 need confirmation.