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98 points and included in Top Rated Pinot Noirs for 2024 in James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion
WINNER: Best New Winery of the Year – 2022 Halliday Wine Companion
“Place of Changing Winds – the place and the vineyard – may well be the most exciting ‘new’ development in Australian wine. It will jump straight on to elite lists of Australian wine producers. You could describe this endeavour in one word: uncompromised.” Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Place of Changing Winds is the vineyard project of Bibendum wine importer’s founder and owner Robert Walters. It is a single site in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria where Walters and his team began planting in 2012. To understand how to establish and manage this kind of vineyard took a lot of research and has been the result of some 25 years of engagement with the best European growers. By the time the project was established, Rob, with his viticulturist and friend Tim Brown had visited Europe together five times, in order to meet with many of the most inspirational growers Rob knows, and finalsing the planning of the vineyard.
The vineyard is in a little hamlet called Bullengarook, between Mount Bullengarook and Mount Macedon, in the hills above Gisborne, about one-hour north-west of Melbourne. This area was called Warekilla by the original inhabitants, the Wurundjeri people. In their language, Warekilla meant ‘Place of Changing Winds’ (a characteristic of the site that still holds true today).
It is a very rocky, gravelly soil and historically this soil type was called “Bullengarook gravel”. The elevation is a high 500+ metres and the average rainfall is typically between 700 and 900 mm. It’s a genuinely cool site with very cold nights and massive diurnal range (variation between max day and night temperatures) which Pinot and Chardonnay love.
Place of Changing Winds is a super-high density, organic certified, no-compromise vineyard. The system of practice implemented and evolved here is focused exclusively on producing the highest quality wines with the maximum expression of their quartz and sandstone riddled soils.
About this wine: Place of Changing Winds vineyard is located between two mountains – Mount Macedon and Mount Bullengarook – hence the name of this cuvée. This wine ended up being around 1/3rd whole bunches and spent nineteen months maturing in Stockinger casks with no new oak. It’s a powerful Pinot, yet it still has great finesse and loads of upfront fruit. It will certainly drink well young, but we’re certain that it will age for a very long time, based on the balance and ample structure. It’s a blend of several parcels.
98 points and included in Top Rated Pinot Noirs for 2024 in James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion “Deep crimson-purple; it has an exotic perfumed bouquet, partly from the inclusion of one-third whole bunches, and partly from 18 months maturation in used Stockinger barrels. The power and length of the wine is extraordinary: the “drink to” date should prove conservative. Drink to 2040.”
96 points, Mike Bennie, The Wine Front “Supple textured, deep and gently savoury, mellow red and black cherry fruit characters, sourness in a pleasant sense, alpine herbs, a slick dusting of clove and cinnamon, bright, blood orange acidity and licks of game meat, truffle and autumnal savoury elements. It feels fine and fancy, exqusiite in detail of flavours and beautiful texture. Sensational, really. Top flight.”
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