Rockburn Eleven Barrels; the name says it all, really. Every year, we fill hundreds of French oak barrels with Pinot Noir and every year, I search for those individual barrels that most eloquently speak of site and season. We present the results of that search here with a wine that exhibits the attributes I enjoy most about Pinot Noir: subtlety, elegance and personality.

The 2023 Eleven Barrels Parkburn Vineyard Pinot Noir is a single vineyard wine displaying the power, generosity and intensity generated by our Parkburn Vineyard site. Dark and moody, the Eleven Barrels displays notes of black cherry, thyme and ripe plum, with an expressive nose and plush tannins on the palate.

With the fine balance of ripe fruit, natural acidity and mineral tension this wine truly represents the Pisa sub-region and its complex nature.

Expect to see this youthful wine transform and evolve over a decade or more; please be aware a fine deposit may occur due to our minimal handling philosophy.

19/20 (95 pts) – Candice Chow for Raymond Chan Wine Reviews –  “Bright, light ruby-red, even colour throughout. This has a gentle, complex bouquet with dark cherry, plum, thyme, sweet spice and toasty oak. Medium-full bodied, dark cherry and plum aromas melded with thyme, cinnamon, nutmeg, unfolding milk chocolate and a hint of caramel. The fruit has a lovely ripeness in the dark-toned spectrum and elegant acidity. The mouthfeel is refined; silky tannins reflect integrated oak and linger with alluring toasty elements. This enticing Pinot Noir possesses black fruit; integrated oak elevates a toasty and silky palate and lends a satisfying, lingreing finish. Match with roasted lamb and duck over the next 10 years. Fruit from ParkburnVineyard, clone Able, fermented in 7-tonne fermenter, 8 days cold soaked, fermented over one week to 13.5% alc, 10 days post-fermentation maceration, aged 14 months in French oak, 27% new oak”.