2024 The Wanderer Macclesfield Pinot Noir

The 2024 Macclesfield Pinot marks a new single vineyard addition to The Wanderer lineup – and it’s a beauty.

Grown in the cooler reaches of the Upper Yarra, this is MV6 clone Pinot from red volcanic soils, sitting at 250m with a northerly tilt. It’s a low-intervention approach: hand-picked, 100% destemmed but not crushed, with wild fermentation in open fermenters and a long 11-month rest in seasoned large format French oak. No fining, no filtration, just estate-bottled purity.

It’s a fine-boned, quietly complex Yarra Pinot that leans savoury – cranberry, red cherry, a little leaf and spice. Tight and coiled on release, with enough structure to suggest this’ll be even better with a bit of time under cork. A serious debut from a seriously thoughtful producer.

93 points
"It’s in the spicy-and-insistent style with leaf matter, red cherry, cranberry and strawberry characters sheeting through."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)