Woori Yallock, 2025

Yellow peach, white blossom and a little brioche, from red basalt slopes high in the Yarra Valley.

Lusatia Park is a north-facing slope at Woori Yallock in the upper reaches of the Yarra Valley, about 230 metres up, planted in 1985 on red basalt soil. Patrick Sullivan, a Gippsland grower who picks his sites one by one, gives it the same hand as his home vineyards: whole bunches pressed, fermented in barrel, ten months in oak. Generous yet precise, with yellow peach, white blossom, a hint of brioche and a thread of spice, finishing long.