Place: Mornington Peninsula, VIC

Variety: Pinot Noir

Farming: Sustainable

Barney Flanders consistently makes some of the best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay Australia has to offer. A man blessed with two Simpsons names, he has been quietly raising the bar of wines from the Mornington Peninsula for over a decade.

The fruit for this wine was hand-sorted and fermented in two ways: two-thirds as whole berries and the other third as whole bunches. This is a beautiful and pretty damn serious Pinot! Really, really fine on both the nose and palate, with red and dark cherries, subtle nettle and classy oak spice notes. The palate is beautifully pitched with the same characters as the nose, a superb powdery structure and a twist of iodine on the perfumed finish.