Awards, Ratings & Reviews
96/100 — Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion · 2024 Vintage · Published: 27 April 2026
"A bit more volume this vintage, which seems to suit Darshan, filling out the palate with more definition and roundness to the tannins. It’s still a refined style, light and fresh with sweet cherries and spice, pips also, a touch of Campari and Italian herbs, plenty of savoury inflections and a lingering finish."
96/100 — The Wine Front · 2024 Vintage · Tasted: November 2025
James Suckling · 2024 Vintage · Tasted: August 2025
"This is all about spice, wrapping around a core of red fruits, with notes pomegranates, cherries, rose hips, blood oranges, red apple skins, crushed stones and wet earth. The palate is textural and seamlessly integrated. Rounded and balanced, with fine tannins and bright acidity, leading into a stony, mineral finish. Drinking beautifully now. Drink or hold."
About This Wine
The Darshan vineyard is a tribute to Bindi founder Bill Darshan Singh Dhillon, who passed in early 2013. Vineyard preparations began a few months afterwards, with planting taking place in 2014.
Darshan faces west on quartz-riddled soils similar to the Original Vineyard. It is planted at 11,300 vines per hectare, with 20% of the vines in a Crazy section at 22,600 vines per hectare featuring four clones.
Darshan, like Original Vineyard, is about perfume and finesse, whereas Block 8 and Block 5 share fruit depth and structure in common. Production typically varies from 100-150 dozen per vintage.
Producer Notes
The 2024 Darshan comes from similarly tiny cropping levels in a warmer season. The nose is lifted by sweet red fruits with some darker fruits working with the undergrowth. It is very complex. The palate is fresh and creamy, energetic, chewy, vigorous, seamless and flowing. It will continue to build complexity and suppleness over six plus years and live well beyond.
About the Producer
Bindi farms vines and manages the land of Ningulabul's Gunung Willam Balluk. Bindi vines grow in a mix of ancient stony Ordovician soils and younger volcanic soil.
The vines are intensively managed by hand and harvested by hand. Bindi wines are made without adding yeast, yeast nutrient, enzyme or fining agents.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2024
- Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
- Region: Macedon Ranges / Victoria / Australia
- Sweetness: Dry
- Fermentation: Made without adding yeast, yeast nutrient, enzyme or fining agents
- Maturation: 15-17 months in French barrels, about 35% new
- Production Attributes: Hand harvested; no herbicides or systemic pesticides; no fining agents
- Vineyard / Geo info: Darshan vineyard; west-facing; quartz-riddled soils; planted in 2014; 11,300 vines per hectare, with 20% at 22,600 vines per hectare; four clones
