100% Pinot Noir

Gippsland, Australia

William Downie is a reference for minimal intervention, site-specific Pinot Noir in Australia. He's always focussed on the grape, spending several harvests in Burgundy at Domaines Fourrier and Hubert Lignier early in his career before working at Bass Phillip in Gippsland and De Bortoli. In 2003 he started his own label, sourcing and making Pinot from the Yarra Valley, Gippsland, and the Mornington Peninsula. He now focusses on the lesser-known Gippsland region, where he has a farm which he runs with his wife Rachel, in addition to tending to other plots across the region. 

10 months in French oak and acacia barriques, 10% new. Incredibly delicate and elegant profile. Gippsland is aromatic with pretty iris notes and savoury potpourri, on the palette it has a spicy edge, very fine persistent tannins, and a lovely weight to the fruit.