2022 Bass Phillip Reserve Pinot Noir

A complex wine that evolves in the glass to reveal its multi-layered personality. Oak plays a significant part in a respectful way, but the quality of the fruit reveals itself with time to become a bouquet of deep black cherry with notes of wood spice, cocoa, vanilla and nascent sweet compost. A silky, fine palate, still tightly wound with great depth and length of flavour. With time the palate will mollify and the flavours lengthen to provide a delicious treat.

Halliday Wine Companion - 97/100

The three BP pinots are a tier of grandness and, of course, a price differential. The Reserve is the pinnacle, a barrel selection with five making the cut and all up, aged in 60% new oak for 14 months. It’s rather magnificent. Heady aromas all florals, spice, licorice root and deep, dark cherries, kirsch, too. And yes, cedary oak and wood spices are in the mix but it’s not overt as the quality of the fruit takes it all in. Full-bodied, ripe, plump and velvety tannins with acidity in tow. It’s a powerful wine in the riper spectrum but it holds its own. An excellent Reserve.

Jane Faulkner- Published 29 June 2024