Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Yarra Valley
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2025
The Wine
Gembrook Hill occupies one of the coolest vineyard sites in the Yarra Valley. Established in the early 1980s in the Upper Yarra, the vineyard sits at approximately 300 metres elevation and experiences a significantly cooler growing season than many of the valley's more famous sites.
The Estate Pinot Noir is sourced from low-yielding vines planted on volcanic soils and managed with a strong focus on site expression. Fruit is hand-picked and fermented with a proportion of whole bunches before maturation in French oak barriques.
The cool conditions and long growing season consistently produce wines of perfume, structure and longevity.
Cellared Says
Upper Yarra Pinot remains one of Australia's sweet Pinot spots, and Gembrook Hill has quietly been making excellent wines for decades. Andrew Marks has this vineyard figured out, actually it seems anywhere he makes wine. The recipe is remarkably straightforward—100% destemmed fruit, wild fermentation, three weeks on skins and 20% new French oak—but it consistently delivers one of the Yarra Valley’s most distinctive Pinot Noirs. There’s the hallmark perfume of rose petals and bright cherry fruit that Gembrook Hill fans know and love, but the 2025 carries an extra layer of autumn spice, forest floor and savoury detail that gives the wine real depth and complexity. It’s a lovely expression of site, and one that should reward both drinking now and time in the cellar.
Reviews
"An extremely perfumed and pure-fruited wine, redolent of freshly poached strawberry, rose petal and baking spices... One of those wines that is delicious straight from the gate but will age beautifully, too."
97+ Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
"This is a terrific release. In fact this is a no-brainer. It has more fruit than usual, more depth through the mid palate, but it still features its trademark structured, insistent length and overall complexity is not in question... It’s super young, of course, but you’re not waisting your money by hooking into it now; it already has a completeness."
96 points - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Yarra Valley
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2025
The Wine
Gembrook Hill occupies one of the coolest vineyard sites in the Yarra Valley. Established in the early 1980s in the Upper Yarra, the vineyard sits at approximately 300 metres elevation and experiences a significantly cooler growing season than many of the valley's more famous sites.
The Estate Pinot Noir is sourced from low-yielding vines planted on volcanic soils and managed with a strong focus on site expression. Fruit is hand-picked and fermented with a proportion of whole bunches before maturation in French oak barriques.
The cool conditions and long growing season consistently produce wines of perfume, structure and longevity.
Cellared Says
Upper Yarra Pinot remains one of Australia's sweet Pinot spots, and Gembrook Hill has quietly been making excellent wines for decades. Andrew Marks has this vineyard figured out, actually it seems anywhere he makes wine. The recipe is remarkably straightforward—100% destemmed fruit, wild fermentation, three weeks on skins and 20% new French oak—but it consistently delivers one of the Yarra Valley’s most distinctive Pinot Noirs. There’s the hallmark perfume of rose petals and bright cherry fruit that Gembrook Hill fans know and love, but the 2025 carries an extra layer of autumn spice, forest floor and savoury detail that gives the wine real depth and complexity. It’s a lovely expression of site, and one that should reward both drinking now and time in the cellar.
Reviews
"An extremely perfumed and pure-fruited wine, redolent of freshly poached strawberry, rose petal and baking spices... One of those wines that is delicious straight from the gate but will age beautifully, too."
97+ Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
"This is a terrific release. In fact this is a no-brainer. It has more fruit than usual, more depth through the mid palate, but it still features its trademark structured, insistent length and overall complexity is not in question... It’s super young, of course, but you’re not waisting your money by hooking into it now; it already has a completeness."
96 points - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
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