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Place of Changing Winds Marsanne 2020

$43.99

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WINNER: Best New Winery of the Year – 2022 Halliday Wine Companion and Best New Vineyard of the Year – Young Gun of Wine 2021

“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’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. The POCW site is very close to Bindi and lies on the same geological belt with a proven track record for quality Pinot and Chardonnay. The vineyard is in a little hamlet called Bullengarook, between Mount Bullengarook and Mount Macedon, about one-hour north-west of Melbourne.

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 finalising the planning of the vineyard.

Place of Changing Winds is a super-high density, organic certified, no-compromise vineyard, focused exclusively on producing the highest quality wines with the maximum expression of their quartz and sandstone riddled soils.

The vineyard lies in an area that 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.

In addition to the vines they grow themselves, they also produce some Syrah and Marsanne from vines further north of their base, in the warmer and dryer climates of Heathcote, and, from 2021, Mount Alexander in Harcourt North. Both these sites are superb places to grow Rhone varietals, and in both cases they work very closely with the vineyard owner, who works to their organic specifications -they choose the harvest dates and all picking is done by hand.

The soils here are the famous ‘Cambrian soils’—red dirt made up of eroded basalt over limestone, shot through with greenstone and jasper. The wines were grown organically, without any chemical inputs, and with minimal irrigation.

This is only the second Marsanne POCW have produced, and the winemaking was guided by their first release in 2019. It could not have been simpler; the grapes were picked fully ripe, then lightly stomped before being immediately pressed, and the must was sent straight to barrel with all the lees.
I think it’s fair to say their Marsanne differs from the typical style on offer in Australia. It’s deep, opulent and layered; a full-bodied Marsanne for those who like their whites rich and hedonistic. There’s plenty of smoky, white floral perfume and a fleshy palate featuring ripe stone fruits, a touch of quince and again that twist of smokiness. For now, do not be scared to give it a decant (it was only recently bottled). It already drinks well, but it will certainly benefit from some short-term cellaring (six months to three years). We cannot yet speak of the long term as we do not yet have the experience with this wine—but our suspicions are that it will cellar well.

Newly released, reviews from 2019 … 93 points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front  “So much texture, flavour and body. It’s a particularly slippery rendition of the variety. This tastes of stone fruit and bacon fat, citrus and popcorn, though everything resolves beautifully through the finish, where it washes clean and refreshing. Indeed there’s a stoney aspect to the aftertaste. Balance here is absolutely impeccable. In fact the more I look at this wine the more I see that there’s more than texture at play here; there’s a softness to the acidity. Like this a lot.” 

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Producer

Place of Changing Winds

Region or Country

Australia, Heathcote, Victoria

Variety

Marsanne

Vintage

2020

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