Swinging Bridge M.A.W Pinot Noir 2024

In their words - Each wine in the Winemaker Series is as distinctive as its namesake. This collection showcases the signature varietals nurtured, harvested, and expertly blended by our Viticulturist and Winemaker, Tom Ward. Named after Tom’s father and the founder of Swinging Bridge, Mark Andrew Ward, MAW is made from a selection of Pinot Noir clones from across Orange. Meticulous winemaking, coupled with the Orange Region’s optimal growing conditions for Pinot delivers a sumptuously juicy and fruit forward wine with savoury complexity and excellent cellaring potential.

Critics thoughts - A stalwart pinot noir of the region, this vintage we are seeing some darker black cherries along with the satsuma plum and wild strawberry. It's always a bedazzling bright ruby colour, and those garnet sparkles also translate on the palate in the fresh-picked rosella and hibiscus flowers. Oak comes across quite savoury, with some black-tea tannins and burdock-root bitterness. A slightly more muscular wine but with lots of pretty red-fruit lift.  92 Points Shanteh Wale Halliday Wine Companion