Hurley Vineyard ‘Hommage' Pinot Noir 2023

Their philosophy is to bring joy to the world by making wine from Pinot Noir with gentility and respect and which expresses the pure truth of its terroir like the peal of a bell. Hurley Vineyard wraps north to east around the crest of a little volcanic hill in three climats: Lodestone, Hommage and Garamond. Sunlit and airy, it is protected by the surrounding topography.

The terroir is owed to fire and water – the fire of the Eocene volcanoes and the waters of the Southern Ocean, the Tasman Sea and the Port Phillip and Western Port Bays. The volcanoes provided the soil – which is very dark reddish-brown in colour and very fine sandy clay-loam in texture. Full of ironstone, it is free-draining and moisture-retentive. The ocean, sea and two bays - which the Mornington Peninsula runs between - moderate the climate and keep it even and cool.

Hurley Vineyard is at 90 m altitude in the south-eastern lowland hills of the Peninsula in the sub-region formed by Balnarring and Merricks. It has a rainfall of about 750 mm annually. With 350 mm usually falling in the growing season, the low-yielding vines are not irrigated. This is beautiful terroir for growing Pinot Noir.