2025 Aphelion Pir Chenin Blanc 6 Pack

94 POINTS

Marcus Ellis - Halliday Wine Companion

From the Brini vineyard, Blewitt Springs, off 50-year-old vines; even split between tank and barrel, with a new Austrian puncheon among older French barrels. There’s a pithy grip to this, an apple-skin burr, knitting into the lees-built texture of regular bâtonnage, with flavours of baked green apple and fresh pink Cripps, peach kernel, wild herbs, a ginger/galangal note, a brininess, some cinnamon and riverstone. Quietly complex and quite the pleasure to drink.

93 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

From 50-year-old vines in a single vineyard in Blewitt Springs. There’s a gravity to this wine. Not a lot, but enough, and it comes together with a general fruitiness, and a deal of texture too. We’re clearly in good territory. Apple juice, apple skins, nashi pears, salt, pepper, a gentle run of tonic water, metal and smoke. It’s very good. It will age. It feels structured and upstanding.