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Garagiste Merricks Pinot Noir 2025

$55.00
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Garagiste Merricks Pinot Noir 2025
Producer Garagiste
Region, Country Mornington Peninsula, Australia
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 26745-750

The Pinot vines at Merricks are 29 years old and sit on grey loams and red ferrosols, but with a north-facing aspect. The outstanding ’25 vintage delivered fruit with the integrity to carry Barney’s preferred inclusion of 33% whole bunches. The winemaking is, as always, pretty hands-off: natural fermentation as bunches and whole berries, with gentle extraction over 23 days on skins and nine months in 25% new oak, before bottling unfined and unfiltered.

Barney’s touch with whole bunches is notable and, as usual, it’s seamlessly integrated, providing savoury balance to the trademark power and intensity of the Merricks fruit. It’s very deep and layered, full of berries, spice, flowers and licks of minerality. This is serious (and seriously brilliant) Pinot, combining grippy structure with fresh lift, gliding weight and lingering length. This will get even better with air and—why not?—roast duck.

Garagiste Merricks Pinot Noir 2025

Reviews

"If there’s a world that you need to enter into it’s the world of Garagiste. This is another belter. The ropes are pulled tight here, and on these ropes are draped boysenberry, red cherry, sweet spice, mint and green olive flavours. It’s both tense and fluid at once; savoury and fruity; the woodlands and the wild coast in one. There are hints of both mescal and brine here, though not too much of either, and there’s enough pucker for it to feel as though the wine has taken over your mouth. I drank this wine and felt older, wiser, younger and more connected. It’s a wine with that kind of pull."
95 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
"Super savoury and richly flavoured, but by no means a big wine. Heady aromas – it is pinot, after all – with wafts of fragrant whole bunches adding some pleasing stemminess to the flavour profile. Black cherries, blood orange and chinotto. This is juicy and spicy, fuller bodied and coated with plush tannins and crunchy acidity."
95 points, Jane Faulkner, The Wine Companion

Reviews

"If there’s a world that you need to enter into it’s the world of Garagiste. This is another belter. The ropes are pulled tight here, and on these ropes are draped boysenberry, red cherry, sweet spice, mint and green olive flavours. It’s both tense and fluid at once; savoury and fruity; the woodlands and the wild coast in one. There are hints of both mescal and brine here, though not too much of either, and there’s enough pucker for it to feel as though the wine has taken over your mouth. I drank this wine and felt older, wiser, younger and more connected. It’s a wine with that kind of pull."
95 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
"Super savoury and richly flavoured, but by no means a big wine. Heady aromas – it is pinot, after all – with wafts of fragrant whole bunches adding some pleasing stemminess to the flavour profile. Black cherries, blood orange and chinotto. This is juicy and spicy, fuller bodied and coated with plush tannins and crunchy acidity."
95 points, Jane Faulkner, The Wine Companion

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