Yarra Yering - Waterloo Pinot Noir - 2024

Yarra Yering’s Waterloo Block is planted to MV6 only (whereas the main block is planted to a range of different pinot clones, MV6 included). This is excellent. These 2024 releases are some of winemaker Sarah Crowe’s best work yet, I’d argue. This Waterloo Pinot Noir is bright and murky at once, in the best of ways, with fresh red cherry, stewed strawberries, sweet and woodsy spice notes, and tips of both mint and smoked cedar. It tastes of Pinot Noir and of the Yarra Valley but it also tastes of itself. Thunderbirds are very much go here. 94 Points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front