2024 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir
2024 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir

2024 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir

96 pts NICK RYAN TOP 100
Dr. Edge |Tasmania |Pinot Noir
Knock-out Pinot Noir from one of the most exciting winemakers in Tasmania.
4.9
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
15 Reviews
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$60.00
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Description

Peter Dredge is at it again, crafting a lightning bolt of a Pinot Noir that perfectly captures the tension, purity, and complexity of Tasmania’s fruit. Dredge says it's the densest and most complex Tasmanian Pinot he's made under the Dr. Edge banner in its 10-year history... Sign us up!

The 2024 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir is a blend of Derwent Valley (60%) and Tamar Valley (40%) fruit, stitched together from 13 different parcels, each treated separately by clone, vineyard, and varying levels of whole-bunch fermentation.

Wild-fermented using the Pied de Cuve method, the wine was pressed into a mix of seasoned oak casks and Italian concrete tanks, where it rested for 9 months before bottling unfined. This vintage leans into density and depth, with the concrete element adding minerality and brightness, while the oak-matured parcels bring softness and mealy texture.

This Pinot hums with energy. Aromatically, it’s crushed red berries, wild herbs, and spice, with a faint earthy edge keeping things grounded. The palate is bright yet structured, layering red cherry, cranberry, and fine, silken tannins over a long, flowing finish.

This is Dr. Edge at full throttle - an electric Tasmanian Pinot Noir that won’t last long on the shelves. Don’t hesitate.

95 points
"This is so finespun with excellent balance, complexity and interest. A remarkable feat for a one year old wine, and a sign of age-worthiness for sure"
- Tom Kline (Inside Burgundy)

96 points
"A wine of this kind of wild beauty could go very wrong. In the good doctor’s hands, they never do."
- Nick Ryan (Top 100 Wines of 2025)
Tom Kline

Tom Kline

Inside Burgundy 95 Points

Forest berries and forest floor lead a restrained and poised aromatic profile, followed by dark cherry, nutmeg, and gentle earth. Air reveals more perfumed wild raspberry and blueberry fruit along with some cherry pit minerality adding lift and shape. So far, this wine belies it’s youth on account of such lovely savoury complexity and calm restrained fruit. The palate is svelte and equally lifted with the fruit more at the fore in the form of raspberry, mulberry and macerated strawberry, but it’s similarly integrated within a foil of brown spice and earth. The tannins are firm but ductile and fine working with earthy acidity to draw very good length through a poised finish. This is so finespun with excellent balance, complexity and interest. A remarkable feat for a one year old wine, and a sign of age-worthiness for sure. Drink from 2025-2034. Tasted Mar 2025.

Nick Ryan

Nick Ryan

The Weekend Australian 96 Points

Peter Dredge is the very model of the modern major winemaker. Classically trained, technically strong, he has the solid foundations required to push things, as he punningly promises on the label, to the edge. Without the disciplined fruit sourcing, the commitment to keeping multiple parcels separate through fermentation and the finely tuned skill to blend them in such a way it seems they just naturally coalesced, a wine of this kind of wild beauty could go very wrong. In the good doctor’s hands, they never do.

Gary Walsh

Gary Walsh

The Wine Front 94 Points

Cherry, raspberry, nice and aromatic, with a dried flower perfume, plus a little sap and spice, and an undercurrent of something a bit earthy or clay-like. It’s medium-bodied, again the violet and rose perfume amongst juicy cherry and blue fruit, toasted hazelnuts, a light dusty grain and grip to tannin, cranberry acidity, a little blood orange tang, with a bright finish of excellent length. Delightful wine. Lovely energy and sense of purity here.

95 points - "Forest berries and forest floor lead a restrained and poised aromatic profile, followed by dark cherry, nutmeg, and gentle earth. Air reveals more perfumed wild raspberry and blueberry fruit along with some cherry pit minerality adding lift and shape. So far, this wine belies it’s youth on account of such lovely savoury complexity and calm restrained fruit. The palate is svelte and equally lifted with the fruit more at the fore in the form of raspberry, mulberry and macerated strawberry, but it’s similarly integrated within a foil of brown spice and earth. The tannins are firm but ductile and fine working with earthy acidity to draw very good length through a poised finish. This is so finespun with excellent balance, complexity and interest. A remarkable feat for a one year old wine, and a sign of age-worthiness for sure. Drink from 2025-2034. Tasted Mar 2025." - Tom Kline (Inside Burgundy)

94 points - "Cherry, raspberry, nice and aromatic, with a dried flower perfume, plus a little sap and spice, and an undercurrent of something a bit earthy or clay-like. It’s medium-bodied, again the violet and rose perfume amongst juicy cherry and blue fruit, toasted hazelnuts, a light dusty grain and grip to tannin, cranberry acidity, a little blood orange tang, with a bright finish of excellent length. Delightful wine. Lovely energy and sense of purity here." - Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

Customer Reviews

4.9
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
Based on 15 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 14 Total 4 star reviews: 1 Total 3 star reviews: 0 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 0
15 reviews
  • JL
    Jeremy L.
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    2 weeks ago
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    2024 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Top drop

    This wine is easy to drink! One bottle is not enough 👌

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  • ML
    Mick L.
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    1 year ago
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    2022 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Stylish Pinot Noir

    Quite Burgundian in style - light to medium bodied and has a bit of structure, but with some lovely Tasmanian fruit. Oh, and made by a top shelf winemaker with plenty of runs on the board.

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  • CW
    Chris W.
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    2 years ago
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    2022 Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Well worth the price

    I found the wine superb, even in its youth. I'd spend the money again.

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Dr Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir is a blend of Derwent Valley (60%) & Tamar Valley (40%) fruit. Its the Dr's secret recipe across 13 different batches separated by clone, vineyard and varied wholebunch inclusion blended to the house style. Natural yeast (Pied de Cuve method) ferments the grapes which are pressed to old oak casks and concrete tanks to lay low for 9 months before bottling without the use of fining agents.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Tasmania
Australian State TAS
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Inside Burgundy
The Weekend Australian
Critic Score 94
95
96
Alcohol 12%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
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Dr. Edge

Peter Dredge is Dr. Edge. He is one of the most intuitive and talented winemakers on the Apple Isle.

With a wealth of experience garnered at wineries such as Bay of Fires, he has revitalised the Meadowbank label and returned it to its place as one of the must-watch vineyards in Tasmania.

Dr. Edge is his passion project where he can take risks and make Pinot Noir, Chardonnay & Riesling that truly excites him. His creativity can fly under the Dr. Edge banner and wines that walk a fine line of tension, funk and freshness invariably arise.

Only small batches of wine is produced, all made by hand, and typically they sell out in short order. Playful, pleasurable and remarkably thoughtful, the Dr. Edge creations are riveting things to drink and have rightfully earned cult status among collectors of Tasmania's finest.

Winemaker Peter Dredge - Derwent Valley, TAS Dr. Edge

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