2024 By Farr Tout Pres Pinot Noir

The smallest, most structured of the By Farr Pinots: a tiny single-vineyard Geelong Pinot built to reward a decade in the cellar.

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Tout Près is French for 'very close', and that's exactly where this tiny vineyard sits - just a stone's throw from the Farr family home at Bannockburn. It's the smallest and most intensely farmed of the By Farr Pinot sites, and year in, year out it makes one of the most serious Pinots in the country.

Gary Farr is a Geelong legend. He made the wines at Bannockburn for decades, spent vintages at Domaine Dujac in Burgundy, and now works alongside his son Nick under the By Farr label. Their approach hasn't changed much over the years: low-yielding vines on the Moorabool Valley's volcanic and limestone soils, careful work in the winery, and wines that speak of place rather than technique.

Of all the By Farr Pinots, Tout Près is usually the one with the most backbone. Expect dark cherry and red fruits, a savoury, spicy edge and a firm, fine tannic frame that gives it real presence for a medium-bodied red. It's the kind of Pinot that rewards patience. Give the 2024 a decent decant if you're opening it young, or better still, tuck a few away for the next ten years or so.

A tiny-production, single-vineyard Pinot from one of Australia's most respected Pinot families. This is Geelong Pinot at its most structured and age-worthy.

Tasting Note
"Striking nose of stems and spice. A textbook example of whole bunch wine making, by the foremost proponent of this style in the southern hemisphere. The ability to replicate flavours from a specific site. This ability that makes wine unique. The part of winemaking that very few can do. A fermented product made from fruit and aged in wood that you can taste or even smell, and think, I know where that was grown and who made it. The very definition of Terroir, I believe, it's endlessly exciting.

The Tout Pres is mouthwatering. It's a riot of flavour. Stems, spice, black tea, driving acidity and leathery dark fruit. Pinot Noir in the New world rarely comes in this form, and its ability to divide a room is equal only to its ability to deliver unparallel, thrilling Pinot Noir expression."
Ben Knight for Nick Farr

Vineyard
With 7300 vines per ha, Tout Pres is a densely planted vineyard on the estate - hence its name, which translates as "very cosy". This land is a challenge to farm, but well worth the effort. The soils and close competition force the vines to work hard, with the result being fruit that is lush but masculine, and which provides the coveted structure found only in the most age-worthy wines.

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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