Sticks Pinot Noir 2024 - Yarra Valley, Australia

Bronze - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (2020 vintage)
90/100 The Wine Front (2019 vintage)
90/100 Wine Spectator (2019 vintage)
90/100 Toni Paterson, The Real Review (2018 vintage)
90/100 Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (2018 vintage)
Bronze - Huon Hooke, The Real Review (2018 vintage)
Bronze - The Wine Front (2018 vintage)

Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion "The palate is soft, with macerated cherries and bitter herbs....offers good value overall." (2020 vintage)

The Wine Front "Red fruits, cherry, rhubarb and a dash of smoked paprika. Simple flavours of raspberry and a little peaty undergrowth, clean acidity, fine powdery tannin, and a modest finish." (2020 vintage)

Toni Paterson, The Real Review "Scented vanilla cherries. Lovely fruit reserve and composure. Excellent red-fruit softness and clarity." (2018 vintage)

Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion "It has such drinkability without losing its essence. Smoky and gently spicy, red cherries with supple tannins." (2018 vintage)

Sticks winery has been Australia's Yarra Valley's quiet achiever for over 20 years and now stands among the region's most well-known wineries. Established by the famous footballer-turned winemaker, Rob Dolin who established Punt Winery and his own Rob Dolin label. Sticks sources fruit from Victoria's famous Yarra Valley, which is known as one of Australia's leading cool-climate wine regions. Sticks wines are modern takes on the Yarra Valley classics, all crafted with drinkability front of mind.

The Yarra Valley is a well-respected Australian wine region which occupies the eastern half of the Port Phillip viticultural zone in the diminutive state of Victoria. At complete odds with the usual, hot and dry Shiraz-growing image of Australia, Yarra Valley is best known for its bright, complex wines made from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

Pinot Noir is the dominant red wine grape of Burgundy, now produced in wine regions all over the world, including western Germany, northern Italy, Chile, South Africa, Australia and, perhaps most notably, California, Oregon and New Zealand.

The essence of Pinot Noir wine is its aroma of strawberry and cherry (fresh red cherries in lighter wines and stewed black cherries in weightier examples), underpinned in the most complex examples by hints of forest floor. Well-built Pinot Noirs, particularly from warmer harvests, also exhibit notes of leather and violets, sometimes approaching the flavor spectrum of Syrah.