2023 Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir
2023 Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir

2023 Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir

97 pts
Eastern Peake |Ballarat |Pinot Noir
Awesome Pinot Noir release from Owen Latta off his home block in Ballarat.
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Owen Latta doesn’t make Pinot like anyone else in Australia. Where many lean on plush fruit and polish, his wines move in a different rhythm – savoury, autumnal, and deeply rooted in the volcanic soils of Ballarat.

The Intrinsic is the estate’s heartbeat, drawn from mature MV6 vines planted by the Latta family decades ago. The cool 2023 season brought smaller yields and slow-ripening fruit, perfect for Owen’s style. The result is Pinot layered with red cherry, spice, dried herbs and that earthy, forest-floor undertone that makes his wines so distinctive.

It’s firm and structural, with powdery tannins and an acid line that promises years in the cellar, yet there’s already a harmony to the fruit and spice that makes it compelling to drink now. Think more Burgundy than bright Aussie Pinot, but with its own unmistakable sense of place.

This is Owen at his best: uncompromising, thoughtful and producing one of the most original Pinot Noirs in the country.

97 points
"The mind boggles with where this wine will go and what it will see. A stunner."
- Shanteh Wale (Wine Pilot)

Shanteh Wale

Shanteh Wale

Wine Pilot 97 Points

Coined the pulse of Eastern Peake. Vine age ranges between 30-40 years in age on all three blocks. This is all MV6 grown on grey loam soils over weathered basalt at 430m in altitude. Destemmed to 3000L concrete fermenters, indigenous yeast, daily pump overs and basket pressed to French barriques (Siruge and Dominique Laurent) of which 30% was new. With additional time in stainless tank for settling. Rosella, goji and pomegranate seeds. A flirtation of raspberry, the density of fruit is undeniable. Cigar clippings, sweet maple leaf and rich brown earth. Melted chocolate and bay leaf. Satisfying, lively and with decades of life ahead of it. Yes, more than you will dare to risk. Intrinsic wines live beyond your imagination and here we see a mammoth effort made in the vineyard and it has been rewarded with a show stopper. The mind boggles with where this wine will go and what it will see. A stunner. Drink it with the evening sounds of birds and crickets for company, for that is all you will need.

Mike Bennie

Mike Bennie

The Wine Front 96 Points

Beautiful. Red berry fruitiness, game meat, truffle, dried leaves, undergrowth, brambles, pepper, blood orange, green olive. Magic. Harmonious and delicate, pure and lithe. A finery and gilt nature to the wine, a shine and lift, a tension and succulence. It feels fancy from first sniff and doesn’t let up. Offering pinot lovers access to fruit and savouriness, vineyard verity, seasonal characteristics of coolness and paler, delicate nature. Big swirls in a glass and more and more comes up, the information expanding as the wine continues. Magic.

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    2020 Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir
    Rated 2 out of 5 stars
    Nothing special here

    Owen Latta make some fabulous wines, this wine for me is overpriced.

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Intrinsic Pinot Noir, the pulse of Eastern Peake! Now with vine material ranging from 40 years to 30 yrs from our 3 beautiful established Pinot Noir Blocks on the Estate. Its our single vineyard wine we produce year on year representing exactly what we do capturing each season in a glass. All original MV6 clone grown on well looked after Volcanic grey loam soils over weathered basalt sitting at 430m alt, thoughtfully farmed with strict organic practices & a mix of regenerative agriculture inputs such as rotating cover crops to help with keeping our soils in such pristine condition, flowering was very good considering how extreme the weather was during season 2023. Everything went to plan in the vineyard with our organic practice, the season definitely kept us on our toes along the way with the unpredictable weather presenting a much cooler than expected year that really helped build up amazing flavour profiles & structure in the berries.



Blocks harvested from the 7th - 13rd of April, all destemmed into our original 3000L concrete fermenters, as always spontaneous fermentation via our indigenous yeasts , pump overs once a day, vats are all basket pressed individually, blocks kept separate & transferred into 228L barriques of various French coopers (mostly Siruge & Dominique Laurent 30% new), topped monthly, sulphur added post malo in November, racked from barrels in late march 2024 to stainless tank where its left to enjoy another full winter to gain complexity & naturally settle prior to bottling, no fining or filtering.



This wine is drinking exceptionally well right now but one that will definitely cellar for 20-30 years or more with ease! We do hold back vintages of Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir from every year to reflect on, look out for a a back vintage release later in the year.



Due to the increasing demand for our Pinot Noirs we’ve also planted a new small block of Pinot Noir with clones 115 & our own vine material from block ‘1989’ (Morillon Clone Pinot Noir vine material sourced from Best’s original Pinot Noir vineyard a Swiss clone), the block is slightly more elevated than the rest of the estate same soil & aspect. Ive always wanted to work with some 115 on the estate feeling that it would complement our MV6 perfectly looking forward to keeping everyone informed on the progress of this.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Ballarat
Australian State VIC
Feature High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 96
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure DIAM Cork

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