Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Bullengarook, Macedon Ranges
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
Style: Concentrated, finely structured red
Production: 280 bottles and 9 magnums
The Wine
High Density is one of the most exacting expressions of Place of Changing Winds, released only when the fruit merits a separate bottling. The 2024 follows the previous release from 2021 and represents an exceptionally small production from the estate’s closest-planted Pinot Noir vines.
Although the entire vineyard is densely planted, this selection centres on sections at approximately 20,000 and 33,000 vines per hectare. These extraordinary densities demand meticulous work and form part of Robert Walters and Rémi Jacquemain’s broader effort to build a close relationship between vine growth, soil health and fruit quality.
In 2024, fermentation took place in a large wooden Stockinger cask with the cap submerged. Whole bunches accounted for just 10% of the ferment. The wine then matured in barriques and was bottled after 24 months without fining or filtration.
Purity, perfume and very fine tannins define the result. It is tightly composed, with depth carried through a precise structure and a long, energetic finish. The producer recommends at least five years of ageing to allow it to open more fully. With only 280 bottles and nine magnums made, it offers a rare opportunity to follow this ambitious vineyard at its most concentrated.
Cellared Says
I came away from tasting this thinking it belongs among Australia’s best Pinot Noirs. There is something particularly exciting about the level of ambition here, and the wine gives that ambition a convincing expression.
I’d buy this for the cellar. Between Two Mountains is already wonderfully inviting; High Density asks for more patience, and I think that patience will be rewarded. My preference would be to begin opening bottles around 2031 and follow them from there. This is a release I’d be very pleased to have put away.
Reviews
“…this release feels like a high water mark for Place of Changing Winds Pinot too.”
Andrew Graham, Australian Wine and Drinks Review — unscored, October 2026
Region: Victoria
Sub Region: Bullengarook, Macedon Ranges
Variety: Pinot Noir
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
Style: Concentrated, finely structured red
Production: 280 bottles and 9 magnums
The Wine
High Density is one of the most exacting expressions of Place of Changing Winds, released only when the fruit merits a separate bottling. The 2024 follows the previous release from 2021 and represents an exceptionally small production from the estate’s closest-planted Pinot Noir vines.
Although the entire vineyard is densely planted, this selection centres on sections at approximately 20,000 and 33,000 vines per hectare. These extraordinary densities demand meticulous work and form part of Robert Walters and Rémi Jacquemain’s broader effort to build a close relationship between vine growth, soil health and fruit quality.
In 2024, fermentation took place in a large wooden Stockinger cask with the cap submerged. Whole bunches accounted for just 10% of the ferment. The wine then matured in barriques and was bottled after 24 months without fining or filtration.
Purity, perfume and very fine tannins define the result. It is tightly composed, with depth carried through a precise structure and a long, energetic finish. The producer recommends at least five years of ageing to allow it to open more fully. With only 280 bottles and nine magnums made, it offers a rare opportunity to follow this ambitious vineyard at its most concentrated.
Cellared Says
I came away from tasting this thinking it belongs among Australia’s best Pinot Noirs. There is something particularly exciting about the level of ambition here, and the wine gives that ambition a convincing expression.
I’d buy this for the cellar. Between Two Mountains is already wonderfully inviting; High Density asks for more patience, and I think that patience will be rewarded. My preference would be to begin opening bottles around 2031 and follow them from there. This is a release I’d be very pleased to have put away.
Reviews
“…this release feels like a high water mark for Place of Changing Winds Pinot too.”
Andrew Graham, Australian Wine and Drinks Review — unscored, October 2026
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