Giant Steps Applejack Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023

Our Verdict

WINERY OF THE YEAR - 2025 HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION AWARDS

PINOT NOIR OF THE YEAR - 2025 HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION AWARDS

Consistently the most lauded of the Giant Steps Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs, Applejack tends to finesse and clarity. 

"2022 was a hard act to follow, but this superb wine gives it a shake. Exotic, aromatic and pure with its bouquet of wild strawberries, dark cherries, quince, spices and flowers. Densley packed, this saturates the palate, but, as always, it's light on its feet at the same time. Seamless tannins round out another benchmark for what's already a benchmark wine." 98 Points + Pinot Noir of the Year - Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion

"I tasted this wine a few months ago and loved it from the first sip. I have it on the desk now and there it is again, a glimmer in the glass. This wine is no one’s fool. It’s a pure expression of its place in the world and that place happens to be complex. It’s a cool wine with straight trees of tannin, perfumed red and black berries, lines of spice and echoes of woodsmoke. It’s a forest of a wine, a bit lush, a bit wet, a bit woody; verdant. At all times, as you drink it, the fruit comes at you like a swell. When you swallow this wine it flares out like you’ve reached the lookout at the end of a long walk. It’s a good wine. And it’s more than that." 96 pionts - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

• Size 750ml

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