Castle Rock Estate A&W Pinot Noir 2024

This is a wine that pays homage to the founders of Castle Rock, Rob’s parents, Wendy and Angelo. This is an exquisitely crafted wine of polish, of texture and immense depth of quality fruit.  The colour is quite brilliant and alive with a brilliance and a luminosity bursting from the glass. It’s quite light, but that can be deceptive. There is a driving intensity with the tannins and oak harnessing the fruit, and really is a testament to clever winemaking to pull all the components together into a wine that is focused and elegantly long through the palate. This was a warm year throughout Western Australia, yet it appears the higher altitude Porongurup region has handled the heat rather well, and this is an excellent wine.