Port Phillip Estate Morillon Single Block Pinot Noir 2025

Let’s face it, there is something truly special about older vines grown in good places that seem to almost effortlessly produce stunning flavours. Year after year, Morillon – sourced from some of the maker’s oldest Pinot vines and grown on iron and magnesium-rich soils  on the Mornington Peninsula – shows a sense of class in the glass. Here, in ’25 we see a sour cherry light savouriness contributing an added layer of flavour with a heavy accent of wild herbs. Delightful! The more you look, the more you see and taste. Aromas are wild in saltbush, garrique – a real maritime feel – mixing with cherry, cranberry, fennel seed, caraway, earth and dusty cocoa. The palate opens beautifully fresh and alive, there is energy to burn in this youngster – a good sign. Fine tannins and a nice drive of juicy acidity aid the flow of cherry and red berries, wild herbs with hints of saltbush and a light savouriness that is warmly embraced on the long finish. Do you dare to drink now or wait? That is the question and only you can answer it. Either way, this is a cracker of a Pinot Noir.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic