2024 Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir

97 points
"This always highly seductive and perfumed wine has aromas of raspberries, orange peel and cranberries as well as a little musk stick and rose bush."
- Philip Rich

Always the most perfumed of the single vineyard Pinots, and in 2024, Primavera is showing exactly why Woori Yallock has become such a prized postcode for Yarra Pinot.

The season was quick. Early budburst, fast flowering, and a compressed harvest window. That might’ve thrown some vineyards off, but not Primavera. The rich red soils held their nerve through the warm spells, and the fruit came in bright, lifted, and perfectly poised.

This is Yarra Valley Pinot in its most elegant form - rose petal, redcurrant, just-ripe raspberry, and a whisper of alpine herb. A wine that doesn’t try too hard but stays with you. Only 15% whole bunch, the rest destemmed and fermented as whole berries, then matured in barrique (20% new) for nine months.

If you’re chasing finesse over brooding power in the Giant Steps Pinots, this is your wine.