2024 Pinot Noir Yarra Valley, Oakridge

Yarra Valley, Australia

Elegant, lifted and effortlessly refined, the 2024 Oakridge Pinot Noir captures everything that makes the Yarra Valley one of Australia’s most exciting cool-climate regions. Bright ruby in the glass, it opens with perfumed aromas of wild strawberry, red cherry and cranberry, underpinned by hints of rose petal, spice and a whisper of forest floor. The palate is finely woven with supple red fruit gliding over silky tannins and fresh acidity, with subtle notes of clove, cedar and earth adding depth. The finish is long, pure and beautifully poised, graceful now, but promising even more with time in the bottle.

For when: dinner’s elegant but the conversation’s easy.
Pairs with: roast duck, mushroom risotto, or crispy-skinned salmon.
If this wine were a person, it’d be quietly charismatic, all understatement and depth.

Oakridge Wines, founded in 1978 and based in the heart of Victoria’s Yarra Valley, is a pioneer of modern Australian precision winemaking. Under the direction of chief winemaker David Bicknell, the estate has earned a reputation for crafting wines that celebrate site expression and restraint rather than power. Fruit for the 2024 Pinot Noir is sourced from select Upper Yarra vineyards, where cool nights and gentle sunshine ensure slow ripening and luminous aromatics.

Fermented with a balance of whole berries and whole bunches, and aged in fine-grained French oak (mostly older barrels), the result is a Pinot Noir of texture, energy and tension, a benchmark example of Yarra elegance. It’s bright, balanced and utterly drinkable - Burgundy by way of Australia’s most graceful valley.

Whats in the bottle
100% Pinot Noir

£26.95
Taxes included.

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  • Producer Information

Perched in the rolling foothills of the Yarra Valley, Oakridge Wines stands as one of Australia’s most admired cool-climate producers, a benchmark for purity, precision and site expression. Founded in 1978, Oakridge was among the early pioneers to recognise the valley’s potential for elegant, modern expressions of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, long before “cool-climate Australia” became a movement.

Under the steady hand of Chief Winemaker David Bicknell, Oakridge has evolved into a leader of restrained, terroir-driven winemaking. Bicknell’s philosophy is rooted in minimal intervention: allowing vineyard character and vintage conditions to speak for themselves. Each wine is crafted with focus and finesse, fermented with wild yeasts, matured in fine-grained French oak, and bottled with clarity and balance at the forefront.

The winery’s vineyard holdings stretch across the Yarra’s key subregions, from the warm central valley to the cooler, higher-altitude sites of the Upper Yarra. This mosaic of terroirs allows Oakridge to produce wines of incredible nuance, Chardonnay that marries citrus precision with texture and mineral drive, and Pinot Noir that combines fruit purity with earthy depth.

With a legacy built on quiet mastery and an unwavering sense of place, Oakridge continues to define the modern face of the Yarra Valley: elegant, thoughtful and utterly distinctive - wines that whisper of the land rather than shout of the cellar.

2024 Pinot Noir Yarra Valley, Oakridge

£26.95

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