2024 Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir

2024 Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir

97 pts
Giant Steps |Yarra Valley |Pinot Noir
The prettiest and most floral of the brilliant Giant Steps Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs.
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97 points
"This always highly seductive and perfumed wine has aromas of raspberries, orange peel and cranberries as well as a little musk stick and rose bush."
- Philip Rich

Always the most perfumed of the single vineyard Pinots, and in 2024, Primavera is showing exactly why Woori Yallock has become such a prized postcode for Yarra Pinot.

The season was quick. Early budburst, fast flowering, and a compressed harvest window. That might’ve thrown some vineyards off, but not Primavera. The rich red soils held their nerve through the warm spells, and the fruit came in bright, lifted, and perfectly poised.

This is Yarra Valley Pinot in its most elegant form - rose petal, redcurrant, just-ripe raspberry, and a whisper of alpine herb. A wine that doesn’t try too hard but stays with you. Only 15% whole bunch, the rest destemmed and fermented as whole berries, then matured in barrique (20% new) for nine months.

If you’re chasing finesse over brooding power in the Giant Steps Pinots, this is your wine.

Philip Rich

Philip Rich

Halliday Wine Companion 97 Points

From Lou Primavera's '01-planted vineyard at 300m on red volcanic soils in Woori Yallock. 35% whole bunches. A bright crimson red. This always highly seductive and perfumed wine has aromas of raspberries, orange peel and cranberries as well as a little musk stick and rose bush. There's a gentle succulence on the palate that's nicely balanced by the wine's supple tannins and fine-boned acidity. Long, lovely, now and over the next six to eight years.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front 95 Points

Oak is more present in this wine. Mahogany, red fruits, lots of herb and flowers, pomegranate and roasted nuts, quite grippy, whole bunch notes evident but tucked in, classic red fruits, rinds, musks and florals but with whispers of mescal. This felt slightly blocky and oaky at first but it came together in the glass and as it did, the wine’s deliciousness went through the roof. The aftertaste has that animal fat, smoky, bacon-like aspect. This is the sleeper in the range; it could be up with the best of them in time.

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    2022 Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Outstanding wine

    Quality and longevity are the hallmarks of this vintage. Great colour and structure from an Australian maker with a reliable quest for continued excellence in Pinot wines across the board.

    This is an excellent wine that will reward patient cellaring.

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