‘Tarrington’ Pinot Noir, 2021

Cool-climate Victorian Pinot built like good Burgundy: red cherries, wild strawberries and damp earth, silky rather than sweet.

Tarrington sits in Henty, the cool south-west corner of Victoria, and this Pinot is made there by John Nagorcka of Hochkirch, a Demeter-certified biodynamic grower. 2021 was another cool year with a long, slow ripening. A quarter of the bunches went in whole, stems and all, and the grapes were foot-stomped, then the wine spent 14 months in mostly old French oak. Red cherries, wild strawberries, rosehip and damp earth, with silky tannins and a bright, chalky finish.