2025 Pinot Noir

2025 was a warm generous year at Gembrook, bucking the trend of the last few seasons. The pinot reflects this generosity with velvety richness and complexity while still displaying the perfume, poise and balance from our inherently cool site.

 100% destemmed. Three weeks on skins including a cold soak. All wild yeast. Elevage in 20% new french hogsheads the balance in old french hogsheads. Neither fined nor filtered. Estate bottled

Campbell Mattinson, WInefront, 12th May wrote "I’m still not quite sure what to make of the 2025 vintage in south-eastern Australia. Very good to excellent, but spasmodic, is my general impression. But in this case, it delivers the most positive endorsement possible.

This is a terrific release. In fact this is a no-brainer. It has more fruit than usual, more depth through the mid palate, but it still features its trademark structured, insistent length and overall complexity is not in question. Black cherries – yes black – and blueberries meet strawberries, red cherries, undergrowth, sweet spice and cedar. There’s a smoked tobacco-like note here too, slightly rusty, slightly ferrous-like. This wine is fresh, racy and deep at once. It’s super young, of course, but you’re not waisting your money by hooking into it now; it already has a completeness". 96 points

Vintage Details

Picked: 6th 11th & 14th March 2025
Blend: 100% Estate Grown Pinot Noir
Alcohol: 13.5
Tech Specs: pH: 3.6 TA: 6gL
Cellaring: 10-15 Years
Closure: Diam Cork