Yarra Yering Waterloo Pinot Noir 2024

Yarra Yering Waterloo Pinot Noir 2024

In pursuit of understanding our site’s potential, we planted the Waterloo Block solely to MV6 in 2016, with rows oriented east–west for improved canopy management and drainage. MV6 is the most widely planted Pinot Noir clone in the Yarra Valley. While Yarra Yering Pinot Noir is a mix of clones including MV6, we previously had no singular plantings of this clone.

Handpicked and chilled overnight, the bunches are carefully sorted and gently destemmed to ensure only the finest berries reach the fermenter. Twice-daily hand plunging during fermentation encourages gentle extraction, resulting in a soft fruit palate and refined tannins. After a gentle press to separate the wine from skins and seeds, it is gravity-filled into 20% new French oak barrels and matured for 10 months in our cool underground cellar.

"Yarra Yering’s Waterloo Block is planted to MV6 only (whereas the main block is planted to a range of different pinot clones, MV6 included).

This is excellent. These 2024 releases are some of winemaker Sarah Crowe’s best work yet, I’d argue. This Waterloo Pinot Noir is bright and murky at once, in the best of ways, with fresh red cherry, stewed strawberries, sweet and woodsy spice notes, and tips of both mint and smoked cedar. It tastes of Pinot Noir and of the Yarra Valley but it also tastes of itself. Thunderbirds are very much go here." 94 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front