Newly released Ashton Hills Reserve Pinot Noir 2009 scored 95 points in James Halliday’s 2012 Australian Wine Companion…. “Very similar colour; tighter, finer and more precise than the Estate, still bound up on itself and needing longer for the spicy floral aromas and silky tannins to open up, whereupon it will be the superior wine of the two. 95 points Drink by 2018″