Bass Phillip - 2024 Vintage - One of Balanced Power
The 2024 growing season at Bass Phillip has delivered a vintage defined by exceptional quality and structural intensity. In the cool, maritime climate of South Gippsland, we often face the vagaries of nature during flowering; this year, a cold and windy spell resulted in a slightly reduced total yield of 32.3 tons. However, for the dedicated collector, this smaller crop is a harbinger of excellence. The reduced yield has produced fruit with a high skin-to-juice ratio, translating into wines of profound concentration, vibrant natural acidity, and beautifully integrated tannins.
Our Chardonnays show a modest and welcome increase in volume and focus, while the Pinot Noirs possess the deep concentration and structural "spine" that ensure they will evolve magnificently in the cellar for years to come. In summary, 2024 is a vintage of balance and power—a testament to the slow, cool ripening that makes Bass Phillip one of the world's most unique sites for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Winery Note
Bass Phillip Estate Gamay 2024
Bass Phillip Gamay is intensely varietal with wild berries and plummy flavours. Good Gamay is noted for sour cherry and earth that make them most suited for consumption in the warmer months. These Gamay's age well over a six year period, starting with fresh sourcherries, plums and plums mellowing into soft rounded stone fruits. Pronounced varietal fruits (wild berries and plummy flavours). Fruity with firm acidity. Doesn't have the length of pinot noir but freshness and acidity give these wines a satisfying place with cold meats, terrines, charcouterire, light pasta and even seafoods. - Winery Team
Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir 2024
Glace cherries and savory, dusty notes greet the nose initially but also showing hints of vanilla and spice; refined and poised at this stage but rest assured complexity will crescendo with time. The palate is svelte and satiny, lovely balance, resolved and complete with lovely length that will only get better with age. If drunk young we recommend decanting for an hour or so - Winery Team
Deep ruby to garnet with bold, bright red cherry to red plum and Campari aromas, laced with broken rock mineral nuances, the palate firm and tense with grip and serious intent, and took a while to open up and reveal its wonderful display of fruit. Firm and somewhat shy at first pour, with oak still evident, it has great depth and should reveal even more if given time. Pour it into as big-bowl glass. 97 Points. Huon Hooke, The Real Review.
