2024 Pinot Noir (value $36): There is a small amount of carefully managed whole bunch fruit that is treated to a separate carbonic ferment

a little char and vanilla from the oak

chock full of cherry/raspberry

Lovely open texture with ever so slightly gritty tannins frame the fruit

with the blackberries on the palate but also damson plum (sweet & sour)

Decades 2024 Pinot Noir size:Per single bottle 2024 Pinot Noir (value $36):Steve Flamsteed (Giant Steps) and Brad Rogers (Stone & Wood Brewing Co) have been friends since their Roseworthy days. Their new venture is a vineyard in tass Coal River Valley. The Decades vineyard began life as Touchwood, planted by the Sextons in 1990 to pinot noir and chardonnay on a north facing hill on the Woodlands property at Tea Tree. The famed black clay soils of the Coal River Valley have a calcareous base here. Rogers and Flamsteed have