Hurley Vineyards - Mornington Peninsula's Pinot Specialist
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The 2024 Pinot Noir’s from Hurley are poised expressions from the Peninsula - detailed fruit, gentle structure with aromatic and textural finesse that the Mornington has become world renowned for. The wines carry a savoury and mineral backbone yet allow for floral, earth and delicate spiced nuance to permeate.
The style draws heavily from a Burgundian ethos - Exacting precision in the vineyard, a focus on clonal difference, small yields, considered elevage and allowing site and soil – Terroir (red volcanic and strong ironstone presence) to deliver what the season dictates.
Enjoy now or in the coming years. Mitch Milicich, FWC
Hurley 'Estate' Pinot Noir 2024
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Hurley Vineyard Pinot Noir is estate grown and made. The “Estate” wine is a barrel selection of fruit from the single sites that is declassified according to each vintage. Hurley Vineyard wraps around the north-east crest of a little volcanic hill. It has three climats: Lodestone, Hommage and Garamond. It is sunlit and airy but protected from the wind by the surrounding topography. Winery Note
There’s complexity to this release, there’s a silken feel to it, and most importantly there’s a lovely even glide throughout, the latter extending appreciably through the finish. I wish that I could leave the review there, because that’s all anyone needs to know. But some people like to hear individual flavour descriptors, so here goes: undergrowth, toast, a bell clear expression of red cherry, a saucy smokiness, rose petals with a gentle decay to them, whispers of dry tobacco. Tannin is fine, just assertive enough, and effectively works as a conduit to the progress of the flavour ongoing. For reasons of complexity, length and mouthfeel, I would place this among the best Hurley Vineyard wines that I’ve tried. 95 pts, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
Lifted cherry cola and alpine herb form a poised nose. The palate is a quietly tense yet rich and loaded with lengthy flavour and exuberance. The fruit feels glossy with polish, svelte tannin and a gentle twiggy savoury finale. Give the wine some air before enjoying. Mitch Milicich, FWC
This is mid-garnet and has a heady and pristine nose of black cherries and pomegranate with the perfume of roses and vanilla supported by a little earth underneath. The medium-bodied palate is super silky and clean with flavours of cherries and spice that are focussed and penetrating rather than robust and bold. The tannins are very fine and, in structure, this wine is well framed rather than tightly bound. The racy natural acidity drives the wine along a straight line from front to back towards a flaring, long finish of black cherries and dark spice. To 2035. Kevin Bell, Winemaker & Owner |
Hurley 'Garamond' Pinot Noir 2024
Garamond comprises 1.2 ha of easterly aspect. It gets the gently warming morning sun. It exudes peace, calm and fecundity. It is the good child. It sets well, but does not overcrop. It is balanced in every way. After shoot thinning, we do very little in Garamond, except to genuflect. Winery Note
It’s touch and go as to whether there’s too much oak here but give it time and such concerns will dissipate. There’s no question though that the fruit itself and the length of the finish are in excellent shape. Cedar, red and black cherry, swings of earth and undergrowth and an infusion of woodsmoke. There’s power and there’s confidence to this wine; it has cellar-worthiness written all over it. In time it will be a beauty. 95 pts, Campbell Mattinson
Garamond is East facing and the last to be picked each year. The coolest site given its exposure, protected from the prevailing winds from the SW and West coming across the valley behind the estate. Kevin is passionate about picking parcel by parcel across this vineyard despite it being only 1.2 hectares. All planted with MV6 clone. The name honours the artisanal ethic of Renaissance typographer Claude Garamond, who designed the font Hurley use on all their labels. Garamond was 26 years old in 2024, and it shows.
"Garamond exudes effortless style. It ripens evenly and is always harvested last. It is classical. In this wine, the fragrance of Hurley Vineyard is the perfume of the boudoir. It is a step up in complexity and intensity. In the palate, there is usually an array of soft, red fruits, plus meat, mushrooms and cake spice. It is succulent, creamy and sweet, but balanced by lively acidity. The wine usually tastes of red minerals and has fine, silky tannins. There is often toffee. The palate is typically tight and firm in its youth, opening up as time goes on. Garamond is complete, ends fresh and lives long. To 2045."
Kevin Bell, Winemaker & Owner
