95 points - Halliday Wine Companion
“From a 'fast and furious' vintage comes a lively, spice-laden, brightly fruited pinot upbeat in red berries, wild raspberry, exotic spice and a sappy, undergrowth complexity. And that's just the bouquet. Svelte and even, fine in tannins with a most sustained finish with spice and anise in action.”

94 points - The Wine Front
“Goes in for 80% whole bunch and 100% new oak, from a vineyard planted in 1996. Cherry and raspberry, a lot of spice and perfume, kind of blue with new oak (if you take my meaning) though the fruit is pretty much up to the task, along with earth and a sort of boot polish on leather thing happening. It’s rich and bold, a little creamy, with dark cherry, raspberry liqueur, spice, porcini mushroom savouriness, and sooty/grainy tannin, plus a finish of good length and intensity, with a subtle sappy bitterness to close. It’s a bold wine, no doubt, that speaks well of Geelong, and I reckon it will be better again with a few more years in bottle.”

95 points - Ned Goodwin MW, jamessuckling.com
“This is a richly flavored, mid-weighted pinot. A rewarding textural patina of maritime salinity, dutiful freshness and sinuous, nimble tannins flecked with whole-bunch (80%) traits of briar and clove, corralling black cherry, bergamot, rhubarb and a whiff of something salacious. Succulent. This is delicious, with nothing pushed. A mellifluous, long flowing whole. I'd like to see this in eight years. Screw cap.”