Giant Steps Bastard Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025

Name: Giant Steps Bastard Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025
Brand: Giant Steps
SKU: RAWGIANTSEXPN18-2554
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About this Wine

97 POINTS - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

"Medium-bodied, with lovely mid-palate intensity and energy. The tannins are just so silky and long. Classic Upper Yarra pinot that will reward cellaring over the next eight to 10 years. 97" - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

The 2025 season kicked off with a generous, wet winter that filled the soil profile with moisture. From there, spring arrived warm and dry. Shoots pushed early; we had fantastic spring conditions during flowering and fruit set. The dry season pushed growth and ripening along even though temperatures weren’t hot, in fact barely warmer than average, a pleasant surprise for the dryness of the season. Harvest came earlier than usual and moved quickly, a compressed vintage that asked a great deal of the team and rewarded the effort with fruit of exceptional quality, concentration and weight.

From one block, handpicked and chilled overnight before being 100% destemmed into a seasoned French oak vat for fermentation. The grapes were cold soaked for four days before fermentation began and spent 15 days on skins, with gentle mixing throughout that time using gravity. All parcels completed malolactic fermentation and were then matured in French oak barriques (225L), 22% new, 78% seasoned for ten months. This wine was matured without racking in contact with its lees before blending in December. Bottled by gravity. No fining. No filtration.

Situated in Gladysdale in the Upper Yarra Valley, Bastard Hill is a 31-hectare property with 13 hectares of vines planted exclusively to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Its expressive name comes from the vineyard’s steep slopes and high altitude, ranging from 300 to 400 metres. Planted in the late 1980s by viticultural legend Ray Guerin, Bastard Hill was initially dedicated to the production of super-premium sparkling wine. Its potential for still wines was quickly recognised, with Bastard Hill Chardonnay and Pinot Noir first released in the 1990s. The Pinot Noir from this block is elegant, perfumed and finely structured, showing bright red fruit, bergamot, quince paste and sweet red liquorice. Silky, fine-boned tannins carry the palate, with a graphite-like frame and a slippery, elongated finish

Type	Red Wine
Varietal(s)	Pinot Noir
Country	Australia
Region	Yarra Valley
Brand	Giant Steps
Vintage	2024

Yarra Valley Wine

The Yarra Valley wine region is the most important area of wine production in Victoria today, and with its proximity to Melbourne, also the most visited in the state.

Yarra Valley is split into the Upper Yarra and the valley floor. The Upper Yarra is cooler in climate due to its elevation and coupled with younger, fertile, red soils produces most of the region’s notable varietals: Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The valley floor is warmer and has predominantly grey soils with pockets of granite and limestone.

Pinot noir has long been considered a notoriously difficult variety to grow. However, the cool climate and longer growing seasons of the Yarra Valley allow the fruit to develop full flavoured and ripe character.

Chardonnay in the past has long been associated with a deep oily, buttery style that experiences full malolactic fermentation and great amounts of oak. This style has since fallen out of favour and wine makers in the Yarra Valley have capitalized on this trend to produce leaner, acid driven Chardonnays that are closer in style to those from Burgundy.