Rosé 2024
A bright, watermelon pink in the glass. Red fruits, spice, a hint of briar and musk sticks. There's decent flesh and juiciness on the palate, all tangy red fruits, pithy acidity and some firm grip and presence
Aaron Brasher - The Real Review Sept 2025 90 pts
L'autre Pinot Noir 2020
A delightful drink from start to finish. It’s as fragrant as a bunch of roses and violets with wafts of cherry and spice. Lighter framed, with juicy tangy fruit across the palate; moreish and savoury with fine tannins. Spot-on drinking without a second thought.
Halliday Wine Companion 2023 Rating 94 pts
Lane's End Pinot Noir 2019
A highly perfumed wine with boysenberry, kirsch, violet and sweet, woodsy, spice notes running joyfully through the palate. This is lifted and lovely. There are gum leaf characters here too but the work in context. The element of crushed/dry/exotic spice here is a highlight. It almost drives into pot pourri territory. It's quite delicious. It feels refreshing too, despite its inherent complexity.
Campbell Mattinson - THE WINE FRONT April 2021 Rated 93+pts
There's no doubt this will be more refined in another year or so. Yet it is gloriously rich and ripe for drinking now. Heady aromas, dark fruits layered with spices, pepper, eucalyptus, chinotto and blood orange zest, all in unison across the full bodied palate. Tannins are plush velvet and so moreish. Resistance is futile.
Halliday Wine Companion 2022 Rating 95 points - Drink to 2029
Lane's End Pinot Noir 2020
Interesting pinot noir. There’s nothing same-same about this. It’s both floral and meaty, which is a fair combination, and while it’s built on a backbone of acidity it also carries quite a bit of cherry (red and black) and plum-like fruit. There’s also a mint note here, clear and bright, which almost tips into menthol territory, which works well in the context of the meat/toast/earth characters here. It’s inherently complex now and it should continue to offer more as it matures .
Campbell Mattinson - THE WINE FRONT Sept. 2022 Rating 92+ pts
Dark fruit, woodsy spices, licorice and charcuterie. Plus, toasty, slinky oak adds tannins, weight and flavour. Medium bodied, supple, vibrant and driven by refreshing acidity. Best with food.
Halliday Wine Companion 2024 Rating 92 pts
Lane's End Cabernet Franc 2024
The aromas are beautiful. Peppery, minty,spicy and alive with forest berry characters. The impression continues onto the palate which adds creaminess and also a friskiness. The peppery notes are especially interesting here. You certainly have to enjoy the cooler (climate) style to enjoy this but in that content, this wine is refreshing and lovely.
Campbell Mattinson - THE WINE FRONT July 2025 Rating 92 pts.
This is the first Cabernet Franc I've ever had from Macedon and I'm hoping it won't be the last. The nose is deliciously perfumed and shows a complex mix of blueberry, sour cherry, earth, baking spices and mulberry with some pyrazines adding some greeness but in a pleasant fashion. It's inky and rich on the palate, with dusty tannins and loads of fruit sweetness and spice. I gave it a + as I think there's some definite potential for it to improve in the bottle, given that it's still a baby, but if drinking now, a decant and some rich and spicy food would be highly recommended.
93+ pts Brendan Black - Wine Front Sept 2025
Dark and inky red in appearance. There's some quite lifted and fragrant aromas of dried herbs, violets, satsuma plum, oak, dark cherry, menthol and tobacco leaf. Dark fruited, mid-weighted, bright and crunchy in flavour, with plenty of fruit and oak doing their thing. The tannins are firm and shapely and the acidity has ping
Aaron Brasher - The Real Review Oct 2025. 91 pts