Castle Rock Estate Diletti pinot noir 2025

This wine takes things up a notch. Typically handpicked and then whole-bunch fermented, it’s a wine of both aromatics and structure and remarkable poise. The nose is immediately more complex, with less of the primary fruit aromatics and more interest from the savoury, slightly earthy notes that emerge. There’s tremendous structure and definition here, but all delivered with impeccable balance, harnessing that marvellous fruit with some fine chalky tannins and fine-grained, sympathetic oak. There’s some power here, and certainly cellaring will see something special.