There’s plenty of whole bunch character, though the fruit here is up to the task. Dark raspberry, cherry, peppery and spicy, cardamom pod perfume, with a little toasty oak. Good flavour, density and weight, a dry grip to tannin with the graphite character of whole bunch as a positive, and the finish is long and firm. Nicely done. Very good wine. (95) GARY WALSH, The Wine Front
100% whole bunches. The two clones MV6 & 777 were fermented together in an open 1 tonne fermenter, which after primary ferment was sealed untouched for two weeks for tannin development. 20% new oak. Racked to tank after 9 months and after two months integrating in tank, the wine was lightly filtered and bottled.
Overlooking Port Phillip Bay, our home base is a five acre vineyard in Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. Planted primarily to the MV6 and 777 clone of Pinot Noir we have been making wine from this vineyard since 2009.
In 2014 we took over full management of this special place. In addition we have we building relationships with various growers on the Mornington Peninsula to source parcels of outstanding fruit.
Onannon is three people Will Byron, Sam Middleton and Kaspar Hermann. We make wines that speak a little of ourselves and a lot of the place. We each contributed the last letters of our surnames to make Onannon.
CellarHand is a fine-wine importer and wholesale distributor, with a portfolio featuring some of the most sought-after estates of Germany, Austria, France and Italy, as well some of the greatest producers from Australia and New Zealand. Our ethos has always been to build a portfolio as you’d construct the perfect wine list. We work with small, family producers who express the best of their regions. The wines we sell are the wines we enjoy, and the people who make them are like family to us. They are wines that taste of where they come from, and though they’re steeped in history and stamped with the signature of their terroir, they’re more than ever relevant – and desirable – to the Australian diner of today.
