Bannockburn Gamay 2025

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Philip Rich - Halliday Wine Companion

From a 0.57ha block planted in 2014 and grafted to gamay in '19. This is the product of a warm, dry vintage, evident by the deep colour and aromas of morello cherry, baking spices and violet. Flavour-packed on the medium-bodied, juicy-fruited yet refreshing palate. Finishes spicy and long with robust, balanced tannins. Will age superbly over the medium term.

94 POINTS

Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Bannockburn makes such good gamay. It’s grown on a 1.4 acre block planted in 2014. Absolutely pitch perfect. I mean, come on. It’s so bright and yet, at the same time, so well fruited; it has freshness and substance and luminance in equal and harmonious measure. Cherry-berry flavours, some blueberry, some blood orange and ferrous notes, and intricate stitchings of spice. Trace elements of herbs and smoked, roasted meats. A bit of gloss but a liveliness at the same time. Everything here is exactly the ticket.