Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir 2023

Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir 2023

It’s been the dream launch for this year’s release of the Giant Steps single vineyard range, with various awards and accolades won along the way. The wines are formally released on August 21, 2024. This Coal River Valley expression is from the Nocton vineyard, planted in 1999.

There’s a flashiness to the fruit, the oak and also – if this is possible – the tannin here. Every component just seems to spread and run like atoms in a cartoon. It’s a foresty wine with smoky oak, nail polish, bush spices and purple flower characters on exuberant show. There’s some volume to the fruit in this wine, and a volume to the tannin too, though there’s no hardness or excessive dryness. Wild in a controlled way, you’d call it. It’s also expansive, and that’s what makes the quality feel so high. 95 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

From the Nocton vineyard in the Coal River Valley. Hand picked into a refrigerated container by 10.30am to make the boat to the mainland; 20% whole bunches, 35% new barriques. A deep crimson purple. With its aromas dark fruits, sarsaparilla, violets and bay leaf, this is the big personality in the Giant Step's pinot range! Equally flamboyant on the palate, which is richly fruited and balanced with ripe, muscular tannins ensuring this will be long lived, too." 95 Points - Philip Rich, Halliday