2024 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Brunnen Pinot Noir

95 pts
One of the finest examples of Pinot Noir to be found from the region.

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The Brunnen vineyard is set amongst spectacular Australian bushland high on the hill behind Beechworth. Its high altitude and rugged soils make a perfect setting for high-class Burgundian varieties, like this Pinot Noir.

This is a gorgeous, thought-provoking style of Pinot that has gotten better and better each season Tessa and Jeremy have been tending to this fruit. It has remarkable fruit purity, accents of earth, herbs and spice, and an elegance to it that is often missing in Beechworth Pinot Noir.

With the higher altitude and cooler climate here, this is one of the finest examples of Pinot Noir to be found from the region. Highly worth investigating for lovers of quality Pinot.

95 points
"How fine, how gently persuasive in its pinosity charm this wine is."
- Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "100% whole berry, wild ferment, mlf, 18 months' maturation in barrique (one in five new), unfiltered. How fine, how gently persuasive in its pinosity charm this wine is. Brilliant cherry red hues. Keeps the cherry-bright theme going on aromas that take in red cherry, cranberry, red berries, bramble, wild herbs and earth. A little bit wild and a lot juicy, with red cherry-berry flavours, Brunnen quietly builds and builds across the palate, moving briskly along smooth sheets of tannin. Keeps the energy flowing through the finish." - Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

One of our most loyally supported wines. Our neighbours the Vissers have had this wee pocket of Chardonnay and Pinot noir on their own roots since 1994, and unirrigated since 2002. Managed and tended entirely by hand with much love. It's almost certainly old G clone intended for sparkling base, and this mature and low cropping site now makes a unique, savoury and red-fruited Pinot noir loved by those who enjoy its pure varietal fruit, which contrasts markedly with the darker and plusher Pinot noirs you might expect from other southern Victorian regions and Tasmania.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Beechworth
Australian State VIC
Feature Women in Wine
Reviewed By Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 95
Alcohol 12.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure DIAM Cork

Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown

Tessa and Jeremy are playing a long-game with their Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown label.

They have invested in a block of land high in the hills behind Beechworth and have planted 10,000 vines on it over the last couple of years with the plan to farm it organically. Tessa has a wealth of experience from time at Sorrenberg and Kooyong, Jeremy is an architect by trade with an eye for detail.

It comes as no surprise that the buzz around this husband and wife team is palpable and the praise is high. Max Allen called them, “one of a remarkable number of impressive new wine labels to have cropped up in Beechworth over the last five years.”

They are going to be at the forefront of Beechworth wine for many years to come.

Tessa and Jeremy in Thorley vineyard - Beechworth, VIC Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown

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