2024 Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir

2024 Giant Steps Coal River Pinot Noir

Giant Steps |Tasmania |Pinot Noir
Solidly-structured and densely-fruited Pinot sourced from the Coal River Valley in Tasmania.
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Description

The Coal River Pinot is firming as one of the most compelling outliers in the Giant Steps stable - cut from a darker, denser cloth than its Yarra brethren, but still shaped by the same discipline and detail.

Sourced from the Nocton Vineyard in southern Tasmania’s Coal River Valley, this site brings longer daylight hours and a cooler, maritime edge. The 2024 season was cool, wet, and slow - perfect for a gentle, steady build of flavour. Melanie Chester and her team wasted no time: the fruit was hand-picked and trucked across Bass Strait within 24 hours, arriving at the winery in pristine condition.

Fermented with a mix of whole bunches and destemmed berries, and matured in French oak (25% new) for eight months, this Pinot is brooding but composed - layered with dark cherry, black tea, cola spice and a whisper of bay. There’s a ferrous edge beneath the fruit, and a savoury, structural frame that gives it real presence.

It’s a powerful southern counterpoint to the Yarra releases - expressive, age-worthy, and totally distinct.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front 95 Points

I tasted this beside the Giant Steps Yarra Valley wines and my first words were: “Less floral, more fruit.” This brings the polish, the flavour, the seduction. It offers the freshest of red and black cherries with woodsmoke and cedar running through, a touch of mint maybe, semblances of undergrowth, gorgeous length, the tannin almost seeming to blossom itself. Beautiful wine. Complete.

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Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Tasmania
Australian State VIC
Feature Women in Wine
High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Screw Cap

Giant Steps

Giant Steps is a premium Yarra Valley outfit founded by Phil Sexton and located in the township of Healesville. Beginning with the vision of original head winemaker Steve Flamsteed, Giant Steps developed an international reputation for producing some of Australia's finest examples of single vineyard Pinot Noir & Chardonnay.

In 2021 the exceptionally talented Melanie Chester joined the team as the new head of winemaking and viticulture, marking an exciting new chapter in this elite producer's story.

Every aspect of the Giant Steps process is geared towards making truly world-class wines from the vineyard to the final bottled wine. The focus is on what the Yarra does best - Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Shiraz/Syrah and Bordeaux-variety blends - and showcasing the unique terroirs of some of the region's finest vineyards.

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