Hurley Vineyard ‘Garamond’ Pinot Noir 2024

The last to be picked each vintage and the most complex wine on the estate. Garamond is an east-facing 1.2 hectare block planted entirely to MV6 clone, sheltered from prevailing south-westerly winds and harvested when no other parcel is left. The name honours Claude Garamond, the Renaissance typographer whose font appears on every Hurley label. The vines were twenty-six years old in 2024, and as Kevin notes, it shows.

Whole berries, one hundred percent destemmed, cold soaked before natural yeast fermentation in open-top fermenters. Gravity fed to basket press, then aged in Sirugue barrels, twenty-five percent new, for approximately twenty months without racking.

“Cherries and raspberries infused with the perfume of roses and honeysuckle… powerful flavours of black cherries, cassis and dark spice… slick and silky… Garamond was 26 years old in 2024 and it shows. It is losing fat and gaining complexity. To 2045.” –  Kevin Bell, Owner