Ghost Gum Southern Lights Pinot Noir 2023

Pinot Noir from the Mornington Peninsula is one of this country’s most exciting styles of red. Three blocks combined to provide the fruit for this wine, with a small portion of whole bunches included. Each component spent a year and a half maturing in French oak hogsheads, 20% of which were new, for ten months, before they were all blended. The colour here is quite a pale garnet which is fading further on the rim. This is a really exciting savoury style of Pinot, with some complexity already evident. There are notes of truffles, forest floor, root vegetables, leather, red fruits and delicatessen meats. While there is the appearance of subtlety and delicacy here, there is serious intensity and underlying power on the palate, with juicy acidity running the length. A Pinot of immense length, finishing with satiny tannins, this is delicious now but will really excite in six to eight years.