Xavier Goodridge Avon Pinot Noir 2024
$72.00The Avon Pinot Noir comes from a single hectare of MV6 Pinot Noir, planted in 1987 at the Avon Vineyard, located in Maffra, Gippsland.
These old vines naturally produce lower yields with smaller bunches, contributing to the wine’s impressive concentration and depth. The fruit was hand-picked into 15kg baskets, with each bunch hand-sorted before being carefully destemmed into fermenters. Fermentation was carried out over 25 days with gentle handling to preserve fruit purity and fine structure. After pressing, the wine was transferred to French oak barriques—30% new—where it matured for 10 months.
It was racked in January and bottled in February 2025, capturing the site’s character and vintage expression with clarity and precision.
Complex bouquet of spice, herbs and a basket of red berries hits the nostrils all at once.
There’s a lot to unpack in this Avon Pinot Noir. It’s filled with nuances of Italian amaro, think Campari and red vermouth. There’s a Maraschino cherry here with sweet basil and spearmint, licks of cinnamon bark, nutmeg and kola nut.
The texture is leafy and chewy, with firm tannins, mid-palate concentration of flavours, that follows with an aromatic aftertaste and a sour-bitter blood orange combo.
Simply mouth-wateringly delicious!
96 Points - Nick Ryan - September, 2025
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93 Points - Ken Gargett - August, 2025
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95 Points - Regan Drew - July, 2025
92 Points - Huon Hooke - June, 2025
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