Stonier Reserve Pinot Noir 2024

Take the adoration you have for Stonier, the brand, but open your heart to the articulate eye of its new caretaker. This is a brand new day in Stonier’s tale, with one eye on the past and both feet striding forward. Fruit is sourced from the 1982 Stonier Family vineyard block, KBS and Windmill blocks. All MV6, wild yeast with 20% whole bunch and aged in French barriques of which 11% was new. A landslide of Quandong fruit is met with sour cherries and red plum. Cut rhubarb, jasmine tea leaf and poppy seed. The svelte weight of tannins is uplifted by fine acidity, with a middle palate of  moreish woodsy herb and twiggy stem. This is jam packed with detail and wrapped in a silk bow. Tannins tannins tannins, they give and give and make you weak at the knees. An utterly mesmerising wine that will live a long and fruitful life, say another 8-12 years. A lovely drink on its own but would also be heavenly with a Moroccan inspired B’silla or pigeon pie. That’s a death row kinda meal.