Where Wismer-Parke’s Wild West End leaves off, Hanck debuts! Just 15 metres to the north, on finer, whiter soils! A wild, switched-on bright cherry colour in the glass follows through on the nose. With a brightly lifted and nuanced deep cherry and fresh raspberry nose and slatey underpinnings, there’s a brightness no other Vineland Bench Pinot Noir I have had possesses. No wonder people get stuck into this wine! There's a slight meatiness that comes through all this fruited complexity. This wine has volume; elegance; acidulated flavours on the surface, deeper, darker flavours underneath. An incredible drag, a length in the mouth that is impressive. This finishes on a salty minerality that portends well for a decade in your cellar. Lovely now: rich and satisfying. Great class! Grand, grand vin!

A word from Mary: Lifted nose. An Incredible Dance on the palate of rich fruit, a haunting finish.

Drinking prime: Now – 2036

Best fruit window: 2027 – 2033. Tertiary flavours will slowly creep and delightfully ‘corrupt’ this wine

Cases produced: 121