This is the third release of the Coal Pit Bendigo Pinot Noir – an exciting project to further extend the sub-regional series beyond our home vineyard of Gibbston, and a lovely juxtaposition with the stable mate Bannockburn Pinot Noir.

Cocoa and Christmas cake lead the nose, layered with lifted dusty spice and a hint of dried bark that brings both warmth and freshness. Beneath the richness, a vivid Bendigo signature emerges: bramble berries, dark plum skin, and a fine quartz-driven mineral line that threads through the aromatics.

The palate is dense and generous.  Fruit wrapped in broad, chalky tannins that fill out the mid-palate with satisfying weight. This wine has power, the wine hums with energy. That ripe intensity is carried by a pulse of bright acidity and a graphite tension that keeps the wine poised and shapely. The finish is long and  tapers slowly.  

A wine of presence and drive, showing Bendigo’s trademark combination of richness, structure, and electric vitality.