Description
Bindi’, 50 kilometres north-west of Melbourne in the Macedon Ranges, is the family property of the Dhillon family. Originally purchased in the 1950s as part of the larger grazing farm ‘Bundaleer’, ‘Bindi’ is a 170 hectare farm of which 7 hectares are planted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Fifteen hectares are dedicated to managed plantation eucalypts for high grade furniture timber whilst the remainder of the land is maintained as remnant bush land and important indigenous grasslands.
The Bindi vineyard is the fundamental focus of our endeavors. Our vineyard and winemaking philosophy is to seek balance and purity in the expression of our various individual vineyard sites and this philosophy is applied to farming and conservation at ‘Bindi’; the preservation of the natural harmony.
Campbell Mattinson on Bindi “The Bindi farm spans 170ha but only 7ha is planted to vines. This simple fact is an insight into the care and respect the Dhillon family has for its land, its heritage and its future. There are only 2 varieties planted (pinot noir and chardonnay) on the home vineyard, with both long-established for their stellar quality. Bindi is without question among a select few at the top echelon of Australian wine and essentially has been ever since its 1988 plantings first hit their straps.”
Michael Dhillon – Halliday’s Winemaker of the Year 2022
About this wine: The Bindi Dixon Pinot Noir is based upon declassified grapes from the Original Vineyard planted in 1988 and grapes from the new Block K, planted in 2001. The ideal of this wine is to produce a delicious, perfumed, spicy harmonious, textured wine that is not as intense, complex nor ageworthy as our individual vineyard wines. Even when the outstanding Block K vines are older we will continue to declassify sections or barrels from each vineyard and produce this wine.
The wine is fermented the same way as our other Pinot Noirs in that it is ostensibly 100% de-stemmed and gently worked in small open vats. The wine spends 11 months in French barrels, of which about 10-15% is new. Production varies from 500-700 dozen per vintage. This wine was formerly called Bindi Composition Pinot Noir.
About the 2024 from the winemaker: “The Dixon comes from part of the original 1988 planting of Pinot Noir at Bindi and some of the 2001 Kaye vineyard. As always, it’s bottled a little earlier than the other five Bindi Pinot Noirs; at ten months rather than 15. The wine is made with destemmed fruit and wild yeast in open fermenters and matured in small French oak barrels, about 30% new in 2024. This vintage is immediately fragrant with red and black cherry and a little red plum. There is brown spice and a touch of undergrowth giving added complexity. The palate is fresh and supple and already very harmonious with fine, stylish tannins carrying the fruit depth. As history has shown, another five years cellaring will add intensity and complexity and this wine will cellar well for a decade.”
Latest release! Review for 2022 – 95 points, Jane Faulkner for Halliday Wine Companion “There’s a clear DNA link to the pinots from Bindi – from the aromas to how they feel on the palate. Wines of place. This is fine and pure, with cherry essence, lightly spiced sweet oak, some Middle Eastern spices too. Lots of heady aromatics folding onto the lighter-framed palate. Some chinotto comes through, blood orange and fresh herbs, as the lacy tannins caress and the acidity ensures length.”
RRP $79 Our Special Price $69.99 – Very Limited!
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