2023 By Farr Sangreal Pinot Noir
2023 By Farr Sangreal Pinot Noir

2023 By Farr Sangreal Pinot Noir

96 pts
By Farr |Geelong |Pinot Noir
Ethereal Pinot Noir from one of the great Pinot producers in Australia.
4.8
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
4 Reviews
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$130.00
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Description

Sangreal is the oldest and most cherished of the By Farr Pinot Noir vineyards - a site that, year after year, gives us the most perfumed and powerful expression in the range.

The 2023 vintage was shaped by a cool, wet spring and a long, gentle ripening period. It was the smallest harvest since 2002, but what the vines gave us is something truly special: a Pinot of beautiful finesse, bright acidity, and layers of fine detail.

Expect a wonderfully lifted nose: sour cherry, ripe plum, dried citrus peel, and that signature earthy warmth. The palate is all elegance: spice-laden with hints of mace, clove and cardamom, yet underpinned by a generous depth of flavour. Even a small sip unfurls like a peacock’s tail, intense, complex, and unmistakably Sangreal.

This is a wine that wears its place and maker with pride. Collectors will recognise the house style instantly - a wine of presence, purity and poise, destined to reward those with the patience to cellar it.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front 96 Points

There are no seams and yet there is such complexity. Smoked cherries, earth, beet, cedar, twiggy herbs and red roses; all these characters contribute, all juicy and joyous, all though tightened by a fine web of tannin. There’s immense life on both the nose and on the palate but there’s drama reserved for the finish, which shows characters of rust, steel, earth, spice and smoke. It’s captivating. It’s lengthy. It’s exceptional.

Customer Reviews

4.8
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
Based on 4 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 3 Total 4 star reviews: 1 Total 3 star reviews: 0 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 0
4 reviews
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    Rhys C.
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    3 years ago
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    2021 By Farr Sangreal Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    By Farr the best Pinot by farrrr

    Loved it in years past, it’s in the cellar so I’ll keep to myself here.

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    ADAM R.
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    4 years ago
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    2021 By Farr Sangreal Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Given time, one of the best Pinots in Australia

    Needs time but will be a delightful Pinot in 4-6 years.

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    Philip P.
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    6 years ago
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    2021 By Farr Sangreal Pinot Noir
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    Excellent and cellarable

    Such a drinkable wine and hard to keep hands off

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Each year the same descriptive notes come to mind for this wine: seductive, perfumed, seamless balance and moreish. It is a site that wavers very little in more difficult vintages and excels in the great ones—this is the backbone of By Farr wines. The alluring characters of this vineyard, combined with red fruits, whole bunch, acidity and oak, have produced a beautifully interwoven expression of site and vintage. That’s what it’s all about.

Sangreal is consistently made with 70 per cent whole bunch and aged in 70 percent new oak. It is fermented in a five-tonne oak barrel with an open-top fermenter, and cold soaked for four days before a natural fermentation of seven to nine days. Once the cap falls, the tank is pressed. The wine is racked only once after malolactic fermentation, then sulphured and bottled, the entire process taking a total of 18 months. The wine is unfined and unfiltered in order to retain its natural flavour and bouquet. Sangreal is the most seamless and perfumed of the three single-vineyard pinots.

Region: Geelong, VIC
Blend: Pinot Noir (100%)
ABV:
Closure: 750ml
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Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Geelong
Australian State VIC
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Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 96
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Cork

By Farr

Gary Farr is one of the most iconic winemakers in Victoria, or indeed, the country. He was responsible for taking Bannockburn in Geelong to the startling heights it reached as one of the benchmark producers of Burgundian varieties in the country. His own label, By Farr, is quite simply one of Australia's finest producers.

The Farr vineyards are based in the Moorabool Valley in Geelong, with a wide array of ancient soils resulting in small yields of incredibly intensely flavoured Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Shiraz and Viognier. With Gary's son Nick now making the wines, as well as taking his own Farr Rising label to monumental heights, this is a project set to dominate Geelong wine for years to come.

If you want to see one of the country's great winemaking families at work, anything by the Farrs will be one of the best examples of its kind in the country. Sheer class, guaranteed.

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