Vintage
2023
ABV
12%
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
Best’s Old Vine Pinot Meunier is the ultimate wine that speaks of place and it has a cult following, particularly in the wine community and the trade where people understand how rare this varietal planting is. First planted in 1867, this unique vineyard block is treated with meticulous care and made into a ‘single block’ wine. The grapes are hand-picked, hand sorted and hand plunged in open vats and aged in French oak barrels.
Accolades
Halliday Wine Companion 2025 –
Cambell Mattinson, January 2024
This release has its cards kept close to its chest. It’s floral and straw berried and earthen, with potpourri and general (dried) herb notes littered throughout. It’s also strung with fine-grained, minerally tannin, which, combined with the wine’s herbal, tonic-like notes, is the perfect foil to the prettiness of the florals. And yet still it feels as though we’re dealing with an infant here; it hasn’t yet properly bloomed. When it does, it will be beautiful. This is on its way to being light, lacy and lovely, the latter from myriad angles.
Drink from 2026 to 2036. Rating: GOLD 95 points
The Real Review- Huon Hooke, 30th January 2025
Medium- full colour with a faint tint of purple in the meniscus. A basket of fragrant herbs and red fruits greets the nose: red cherry, raspberry and strawberry included. The wine is supremely elegant in the mouth, intense and focused, finely grained tannins supporting the ethereal fruit, acidity cleansing the finish. A lovely wine, still young, promising much more if left in the cellar for a few more years.
Drink 2026- 2038. Rating 94/100
Winemaker's Bio
Hailing from the NSW cool- climate wine region of Orange, Jacob began working in vineyards from the age of 14. He moved to Sydney to begin an electrical apprenticeship before returning home, where he was offered a maintenance position at Phillip Shaw Wines. After a few months, he joined the vintage team for the 2016 harvest and instantly fell in love with the industry. He worked a further five vintages with Phillip Shaw Wines under the tutelage of Nadja Wallington and the Shaw Family. Completing his degree in Oenology, Jacob spent a vintage in California’s Sonoma Coast, before joining Best’s Great Western in 2021.
