2025 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
2025 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

2025 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir

93 pts
Hoddles Creek |Yarra Valley |Pinot Noir
Pretty as a picture Pinot from the Yarra Valley. Amazing value on offer here once again under this label.
4.4
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
24 Reviews
Price:
$20.00
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In stock, ready to ship
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Description

Few producers can deliver Pinot Noir with as much value and character as Hoddles Creek, and the 2025 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir is a perfect example of their skill.

Crafted from Upper Yarra fruit, including experimental blocks from the Hoddles Creek estate, this Pinot is made with much more care than you'd think possible at this price. A 20% whole-bunch ferment adds fine tannins and subtle spice, while 20 days on skins builds texture and complexity. 

The wine opens with aromas of dark berries and a hint of savoury spice. The palate is smooth and juicy, offering black cherry and plum flavours with bright acidity and a clean, polished finish. It’s versatile and approachable, equally at home with food or on its own.

A thoughtful and balanced Pinot Noir which hugely over-delivers in the value for money stakes for the region.

93 points
"It has an unusual level of gravitas for a $20 wine, and pretty much, I’d say, it would be hard to do better than this at this price point."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)

Gary Walsh

Gary Walsh

The Wine Front 93 Points

Franco says ‘100% Estate grown. Combination of some eight year old plantings and existing 2001 plantings that stylistically don’t fit in Hoddles Estate blend’ This is better than the Tasmanian wine by a margin! More composed and fine, more concentrated.

Raspberry, cherry, some spice, mint and floral perfume. It’s medium-bodied, a juicy cherry and raspberry pip flavour, sooty tannin and subtle earthiness, and gee, it’s a convincing wine from front to back, It has an unusual level of gravitas for a $20 wine, and pretty much, I’d say, it would be hard to do better than this at this price point. Also has a ‘mineral’ thing about it. Yes.

Philip Rich

Philip Rich

Halliday Wine Companion 92 Points

You gotta love just how different the three Wickhams Road pinots are. And while my pick of the '25s (at this early stage) is the new Tasmanian, the other two still deliver superb value for money. This is the darkest in colour and the ripest of the three. Rich, plummy and full of flavour, with enough tannin to suggest it will soften and improve over the next 12–24 months.

Customer Reviews

4.4
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
Based on 24 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 10 Total 4 star reviews: 13 Total 3 star reviews: 1 Total 2 star reviews: 0 Total 1 star reviews: 0
24 reviews
  • OW
    Oliver W.
    Verified Buyer
    1 month ago
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    2024 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Great value

    My current favourite great value pinot. Really tasty and then you take into account it is only $20! Will be stocking up before it sells out...

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  • NM
    Nicole M.
    Verified Buyer
    2 months ago
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    2024 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    Delicious

    Delicious, Light bodied and great value pinot

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  • AR
    AIDA R.
    Verified Buyer
    4 months ago
    Reviewing
    2024 Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    A lovely drop

    Great value Pinot noir, tip is to decant as it takes it to another level!

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More forward than the Estate range, this Pinot has a dark berry nose with a black cherries and plum on the palate. A combination of Upper Yarra Valley fruit and some experimental blocks off Hoddles. The wine sees about 20% whole bunches in the ferment to give spice and fine tannins. Spends about 20 days on skins and is bottled without fining or filtration.

Price Bracket $30 or Less
Type Red
Body Light Bodied
Variety Pinot Noir
Country Australia
Region Yarra Valley
Australian State VIC
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
Critic Score 93
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2025
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Hoddles Creek Estate

Hoddles Creek Estate lays a serious claim to being one of the best value producers in Australia.

Led by the extremely hardworking winemaking guru Franco D’Anna, the Hoddles team crafts wonderful Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in particular that seriously overdeliver at all price points.

The wines are all made from fruit grown on their family vineyard in the Upper Yarra Valley. A must-try for Yarra Valley fans and bargain hunters alike!

Winemaker Franco D'Anna - Yarra Valley, VIC Discover Hoddles Creek

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