2024 Gentle Folk Little Creek Pinot Noir

Tucked into its own small valley in Norton Summit, Little Creek is a vineyard that’s always marched to its own beat. The vines, planted in the late ’80s on quartz and siltstone soils, are densely packed - twice the planting density of neighbouring blocks - which gives the fruit its natural depth and concentration.

The 2024 vintage produced tiny yields, but what little there was is superb. This is classic Little Creek Pinot: darker fruited, more savoury and structured than the other Gentle Folk sites, yet still full of the lift and energy that defines the season. There’s black cherry and plum wrapped around earthy spice, with fine tannins and just a whisper of oak to frame it.

Fermented with 100% destemmed fruit and aged for ten months in French oak (only 10% new), it’s a beautifully balanced, expressive wine from one of the Hills’ most distinctive sites.

95 points
"Dark-fruited and spicy, with great intensity and perfume. The palate is plush and fruit-driven, with a minerally mouthfeel and fine tannins. A lovely wine with real purity and power. Drink or hold."
- Ryan Montgomery (James Suckling)