2024 By Farr RP Pinot Noir

A dark, silky Geelong Pinot from By Farr's close-planted Cote Vineyard. Powerful and polished, and one for the cellar.

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Description

By Farr is one of the names that put Geelong Pinot Noir on the map. Gary Farr built his reputation at Bannockburn before starting the family label, and these days his son Nick runs the show with the same Burgundian-minded, site-first approach. The RP, named for Robyn Pamela, Nick's mum, is the newest piece of that story.

The fruit comes from the Cote Vineyard, the same site behind the GC Chardonnay. It's a close-planted, high-density block on an exposed hillside facing north, north-east and east, and the family sees these slopes as the backbone of By Farr for decades to come.

The 2024 sits on the darker, silkier side of the Farr Pinots, with a little more oak and cocoa showing. Ripe red and dark fruits, warm spice, and a satiny texture held together by fine, talc-like tannins. Concentrated and polished, but seamless rather than heavy. Give it a decant if you're opening it now. It picks up perfume, sour cherry and freshness the longer it sits, the more this gorgeous wine opens up..

This is a powerful, polished Pinot from a young high-density site that's clearly heading somewhere special. One to watch, and one for the cellar.

Tasting Note
"Darker silkier more wood and cocoa. The RP is concentrated and polished, with talcum powder like tannins. It's seamless and powerful. The RP is beautifully scented with ripe fruits and warm spice and a texture like satin. The wine opens up beautifully, and by that, I mean it shows more perfume, and more sour cherry and freshness as the wine sits in the decanter. I tasted this over about 30 hours and the wine just keeps showing another facet."
Ben Knight for Nick Farr

Vineyard
The fruit for this RP (Robyn Pamela) Pinot Noir is sourced from the Cote Vineyard as is the GC Chardonnay. A close planted / high density planting of Pinot Noir on a exposed cote. These hillsides facing North, North East and East will be the backbone of the Farr dynasty for decades to come.

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Geelong
Australian State VIC
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
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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