Main Ridge Estate Old Vine Pinot Noir 2025
- 96
- $100
- Drink by: 2026-2042
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This is a wine that will forever be associated with Nat White, the co-founder of Main Ridge Estate, who sadly died earlier this year. Nat was a pioneering influence on the Mornington Peninsula with his early adoption of Pinot Noir. His legacy lives on under new owners, the Sexton family, who produced a stunner of an old vine Pinot Noir in 2025. Captures the liveliness of youth with a cracking array of red berries, cherries, plums gently entwined into aromatic layers of florals, blood orange, herbs, spice and earth that run deep through the wine. So much potential lives here for further ageing. Beautifully integrated throughout with complexity from the get go. Ripe, juicy fruit, smart oak and gentle earthy herbs and spices combine with a sleek tannin structure and a freshness of acidity that lifts bright and long through the finish. Built for time in bottle, but it will be a test of patience for many. The Sextons have done Nat White proud.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
