"I defy anyone to find better-value Pinot Noir than these made by Heirloom in the Adelaide Hills. A recent encounter with the 2022 vintage of the white-label bottling ....reminded me how they deliver the full potential of this most capricious grape. It is pinpoint Pinot, with all the high-fidelity red fruits you could wish for, plus instant complexity and supreme persistence that are normally associated with bottles many times more expensive.
There is perhaps one proviso: you need to like the whole-bunch style of winemaking, and the signature flavours that creates. For avoidance of doubt: yes, I very much do. For me, this is key to the instant complexity of such Pinot Noirs. The 2022 that I tasted has a tomato-stalk sappiness which opens the wine, giving greater brightness and clarity to the flavours. It must always be balanced, of course, and there is no shortage of crunchy red-fruit flavour from the skin and pulp to keep the stemminess in check.
