Tasting Profile
April 2024
The wine reveals an enticing bouquet of red cherries, ripe strawberries, and pomegranate. Delicate hints of green spice from whole bunch inclusion, and subtle notes of citrus rind add complexity. The refined palate exhibits a seamless integration of flavours, with a persistent presence of raspberry and strawberry, complemented by velvety tannins that lend both length and structure. Bright, fresh and immediately enjoyable, yet destined for further refinement with medium-term cellaring.
13.5%
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Reviews
Wine Pilot, May 2024
Ray Jordan
Highly fragrant and perfumed, revealing aromas of sour cherry and light strawberry. Follows the low intervention approach adopted at Port Phillip Estate which results in wines that present beautifully almost pristine fruit characters. There is power here, though, with a focussed persistence
95 points
The Real Review, July 2024
Aaron Brasher
Complex aromas of briar, sap, spice, underbrush, cherry, blueberry and earth. Soft, mouth-filling, layered and complex on the palate. There’s a core of red and blue fruits, along with a wild brambly edge and Asian spice. The tannins are round, firm and shapely and the acidity delivers cut.
92 points
Jancisrobinson.com, March 2025
Tamlyn Currin
Produced by the same winemaking team as the Kooyong wines, made in the same winery, but the fruit sources are quite different. This is from a vineyard planted in the late 1980s ‘up the hill’, in the deep red volcanic soil 140 metres above sea level on Red Hill. Ambient-yeast ferment in stainless steel and large-format wood, 12% whole bunch. Matured for 11 months in barrique and puncheon, 15% new.
Despite being made in an almost identical way to PPE’s Balnarring Pinot, this could not be more different: pale, translucent red in colour, bursting with of pretty, floral, fine, red-fruited aromas. It’s elegant and fine and bright in the mouth, with powdery tannins.
16.5 points
The Vintage
The Vineyard
The Port Phillip Estate ‘Red Hill’ vineyard is located on the Mornington Peninsula at Red Hill, on Eocene volcanic soils. Our wines are made from domain grown, handpicked grapes and aim to manifest terroir: the integration of our geology and soils with the macroclimate of our region, the mesoclimates of the various sites within our vineyard and the weather of the annual grape growing season. Our cultural operations in the vineyard and practices in the winery endeavour to articulate these unique characteristics diligently, respectfully and without artifice.