2025 Dr. Edge Tasmania Barrique Matured Pinot Noir

Dr. Edge |Derwent Valley |Pinot Noir
One of our most popular Tassie Pinots year-in-year-out!

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Peter Dredge’s journey to becoming one of Tasmania's top winemakers started completely by accident after a sports injury steered him into the cellar. His Dr Edge label has since earned a massive following for its lithe, unmanipulated reds that capture the rugged Tasmanian landscape. This parallel release explores how traditional small barrels compare directly to raw concrete maturation when it comes to Pinot Noir.  

Sourced from the Derwent and Tamar Valleys, this parcel sees a generous amount of whole-bunch fruit and partial carbonic maceration during a wild ferment. Dredge then presses the wine into older, seasoned oak barriques to settle down for nine months before bottling without any fining or filtering.

This is a slightly darker beast in 2025 compared to other cooler years. It shows a deeply savoury, dark-toned profile of wild mulberries, forest brambles, and dried tea leaf, layered over a subtle undercurrent of smoked char. The older oak sits perfectly in the background, offering a plush, rounded frame that keeps everything together.

Lovers of Dr. Edge Pinot, this is not a vintage to be missed!

95 points
"This is high quality Pinot Noir... It seems less mineral-laced than the Concrete Matured version but is similarly complex, fresh, powerful and sustained."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 points - "This is high quality Pinot Noir. It’s different to the Concrete Matured version but it’s the equivalent standard. It’s a cherry-plum flavoured pinot with boysenberry, forest berries, sweet-almost-coffeed cedar and woodsmoke notes, before tea leaf, red rose and autumnal notes enter the fray. Cedarwood oak, almost smoked bacon-like, is certainly present but also hand-in glove. It seems less mineral-laced than the Concrete Matured version but is similarly complex, fresh, powerful and sustained." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

Customer Reviews

Dr. Edge Tasmania Pinot Noir is a blend of Derwent Valley (60%) and Tamar Valley (40%) fruit. All manner of whole cluster inclusion and partial carbonic maceration occurs across each parcel in the fermenters. After wild yeast has its way, the fermented grapes are pressed to old oak barriques to lay low for 9 months before bottling without the use of any fining agents.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Derwent Valley
Australian State TAS
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Critic Score 95
Alcohol 12.5%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
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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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