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Awards, Ratings & Reviews
95/100 - The Wine Front
2024 Vintage. Tasted: Jun 2026.
About This Wine
Garamond is the last parcel picked each vintage and is described as the most complex wine on the estate.
It comes from an east-facing 1.2 hectare block planted entirely to MV6 clone, sheltered from prevailing south-westerly winds and harvested when no other parcel is left.
The name honours Claude Garamond, the Renaissance typographer whose font appears on every Hurley label.
The vines were twenty-six years old in 2024.
Whole berries were one hundred percent destemmed and cold soaked before natural yeast fermentation in open-top fermenters. The wine was gravity fed to basket press, then aged in Sirugue barrels, twenty-five percent new, for approximately twenty months without racking.
Producer Notes
āCherries and raspberries infused with the perfume of roses and honeysuckleā¦ powerful flavours of black cherries, cassis and dark spiceā¦ slick and silkyā¦ Garamond was 26 years old in 2024 and it shows. It is losing fat and gaining complexity. To 2045.ā
ā Kevin Bell, Owner
About the Producer
Hurley Vineyard is based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, and was established in 2001.
Tricia Byrnes and Kevin Bell first planted vines at their Balnarring property in 1998 with the sole intention of creating three single-vineyard Pinot Noirs.
Their philosophy centres around respect for the environment, and they see viticulture as their most important role.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2024
- Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
- Region: Mornington Peninsula / Victoria / Australia
- Vineyard / Geo info: East-facing 1.2 hectare Garamond block planted entirely to MV6 clone
- Fermentation: Natural yeast fermentation in open-top fermenters
- Maturation: Approximately twenty months in Sirugue barrels, twenty-five percent new, without racking
- Drinking Window: To 2045
