Bindi Block 8 Pinot Noir 2024

Bindi Block 8 Pinot Noir 2024

The Block 8 vineyard is 3/4 of a hectare in size on a sheltered, north-west facing, and very quartz riddled site with some fertile volcanic soils. The eighth block planted at Bindi has a grandstand exposition sweeping down the mid slope. Here there are mostly 11,300 vines per hectare with a crazy section at 22,600 vines per hectare featuring seven clones. The wines from this vineyard are compelling and delicious when young and as history has shown, going back to the 1992 Bindi Pinot Noir, the wines age exceptionally well from the beginning and drink beautifully for a long time.

The wine spends 15-17 months in French barrels of which about 50% are new. The Block 8 wine has exceptional fruit depth and earthiness and is intensely structured, very long and ageworthy.

Production typically varies from 125-200 dozen per vintage.

'Block 5 seems to do the heavy lifting, Block 8 the sleeper. One, two combo.

While the notes read like ‘brooding’ the wine tastes like ‘vibrancy and purity’. Yes, some sheen of fine, brown spice oak seasoning, but dark cherry, black plum fruit is the mainstay. There’s undergrowth, truffle, dried Italian herbs in tow. It places itself as distinctly complex, detailed in its matrix of fruit, spice, savoury and wood; something to pause on and reflect. Serious, beautiful wine' 96 Points - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front