2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
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2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

95 pts
Giant Steps |Yarra Valley |Pinot Noir
A fast and furious vintage in the Yarra for the Giant Steps team giving the a beautifully balanced and supple Pinot Noir in 2024.
4.6
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
27 Reviews
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$35.00
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Description

If you’re curious about what top-shelf Yarra Pinot Noir looks like without splashing $100, this is your ticket in. The 2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir once again delivers the goods - elegant, expressive and downright delicious.

Mel Chester and the team work with fruit from across the region, with a big dose coming from the cooler, high-altitude Upper Yarra vineyards. The 2024 vintage brought a fast and furious harvest, with all the Pinot and Chardonnay picked in just a few weeks (rather than the usual six). That pace translated into wines with vivid fruit, bright acidity and brilliant natural balance.

Aromatically, this is pure Yarra charm - wild strawberry, cherry, a flick of spice and just a hint of stemmy crunch thanks to a portion of whole bunches. It glides across the palate with polished red fruits and a fine earthy tannin trail on the finish.

One of the country’s best value premium Pinot Noirs, made with the same precision and purpose as the highly decorated single vineyard wines - this is the delicious gateway into the world of Giant Steps.

95 points
"A very bright crimson purple. Pretty and complex with aromas of red cherry skins and rhubarb together with some pink peppercorn spice and a light savoury edge. More approachable than the '23. As a young wine, the medium-bodied palate is spicy, silky and long. It'll probably age well but it's so good to drink now that there's no need to bother!"
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

Philip Rich

Philip Rich

Halliday Wine Companion 95 Points

A 50/50% mix of upper and lower Yarra estate and grower fruit. 30% whole bunches. A very bright crimson purple. Pretty and complex with aromas of red cherry skins and rhubarb together with some pink peppercorn spice and a light savoury edge. More approachable than the '23. As a young wine, the medium-bodied palate is spicy, silky and long. It'll probably age well but it's so good to drink now that there's no need to bother!

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson

The Wine Front 93 Points

Classic styling here. Red and black cherried fruit flavour but with a dark, woodsy edge. Fragrant herb and wood spice top notes. Good fruit and fragrance but taut, finessed, almost filigreed. Balanced on a pinhead stuff. The aromatics here in particular feel incredibly pure and yet, at the same time, the nose is not simple and nor is it suggestive of sweetness. The control is high and yet the wine feels real. Quality wine. Beautifully turned out.

95 points - "A 50/50% mix of upper and lower Yarra estate and grower fruit. 30% whole bunches. A very bright crimson purple. Pretty and complex with aromas of red cherry skins and rhubarb together with some pink peppercorn spice and a light savoury edge. More approachable than the '23. As a young wine, the medium-bodied palate is spicy, silky and long. It'll probably age well but it's so good to drink now that there's no need to bother!" - Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)

93 points - "Classic styling here. Red and black cherried fruit flavour but with a dark, woodsy edge. Fragrant herb and wood spice top notes. Good fruit and fragrance but taut, finessed, almost filigreed. Balanced on a pinhead stuff. The aromatics here in particular feel incredibly pure and yet, at the same time, the nose is not simple and nor is it suggestive of sweetness. The control is high and yet the wine feels real. Quality wine. Beautifully turned out." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

Customer Reviews

4.6
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
Based on 27 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 18 Total 4 star reviews: 8 Total 3 star reviews: 0 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 1
27 reviews
  • SP
    selvam p.
    Verified Buyer
    3 months ago
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    2024 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    stunning

    Must have this always handy for that night out of duck or pork at your fav BYO Chinese

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  • YL
    Yongkyu L.
    Verified Buyer
    6 months ago
    Reviewing
    2023 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Excellent & Great Value

    Absolutely loved this Pinot! It is well-made and offers fantastic value. Flawless from start to finish.

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  • BW
    Barry W.
    Verified Buyer
    6 months ago
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    2023 Giant Steps Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Giant steps Pinot 2023

    Fantastic straight out of the bottle , no need for air as it evolves nicely in the glass- excellent depth and will definately age if you prefer a little less fruit and more complexity

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Vintage Notes
The 2024 vintage is a more classic Yarra season. A cool start to spring and ideal flowering conditions lead to good fruit set and moderate yields. December was cool and mild, with significant rainfall at New Years and during the first week of January giving the vines a good drink leading into the heat of February. Mid to late February was drier and warmer than is common in the Yarra, leading to great ripening conditions with no disease pressure and a quite fast vintage. In 2024, all of our Pinot and Chardonnay was ready in quick succession, leading to a compressed harvest - with the whole valley picked in the space of 3 weeks (where it normally spreads across 6 weeks). An exciting ride for our team but ultimately giving us wines with great flavour, bright acidity and balance.

Vineyard Notes
Sourced from vineyards across the Yarra Valley. 50% sourced from the upper Yarra ranges.

Winemaking
At Giant Steps, we hand pick 100% of our fruit and fastidiously hand sort in the vineyard. Pinot Noir has one of two processing pathways at Giant Steps - either fermented semi carbonic with 100% whole bunch or destemmed and fermented with whole berries. When the fruit arrives at the winery, we determine which direction to take the parcel depending on clone, vineyard, stem ripeness and flavour. Our whole bunch batches are fermented warm with minimal mixing for 14 days. The destemmed whole berry parcels are cold soaked for 3 days before we allow them to warm up and start fermentation naturally. All of our cap management is done using gravity drain and returns, allowing for gentle extraction before pressing. Each parcel is then transferred by gravity to French oak barriques for malolactic fermentation and is kept on those lees for the duration of its maturation. The parcels are blended together in Spring before bottling in December. Parcels are matured in French oak (10% new, 90% older) for eight months. This wine is bottled by gravity without fining or filtration. Parcels are matured in French oak (10% new, 90% older) for eight months. Blended in October and then bottled by gravity without fining or filtration in November.

Price Bracket $31 to $40
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
Critic Score 95
93
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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