Pinot Noir of the Year and 6 Wines Listed in Tyson Stelzer's Top 250 Australian Wines for 2024
We are absolutely thrilled to share that our 2022 La Maison Pinot Noir has been awarded Tyson Stelzer's Pinot Noir of the Year in his 'Top 250 Australian Wines for 2024'.
In some incredible news, we had 6 wines selected in Stelzer's list of the Top 250 Australian wines for 2024.
2022 La Maison Pinot Noir (sold out)
97 points
"Announcing the most sublime Australian pinot noir I have ever tasted and a worthy winner of my Pinot Noir of the Year. After I named the 2020 vintage Pinot Noir of the Year in the Halliday Wine Companion, if it wasn’t already clear that the old pinot noir vines of the Lowestoft vineyard are among the finest in the country, the 2023 Jimmy Watson Trophy for the 2022 certainly confirmed it. There is a resolute confidence to this site, intricately preserved by the genius of Liam McElhinney and his team. Deep, black fruit complexity, lifted violet and rose petal perfume, evocative exotic spice, velvet-fine tannins and brilliant natural acidity define a sensational finish and declare quintessential pinot noir of the highest order"
2021 La Meilleure Chardonnay
95 points
"Tasmanian chardonnay of distinction and grandeur, thanks to the advantage of agility in both sourcing and production techniques, drawing on the best regions across the state and the best of winemaking dexterity. The result delivers complexity and concentration yet succeeds in delivering the tricky balance of combining this with understated restraint, structural tension and enduring promise."
2022 Single Vineyard Glengarry Pinot Noir
95 points
"Lowestoft captures a very different mood in Glengarry north-west of Launceston than it does in its home vineyard in the Derwent Valley, expressing the cool and humid 2022 vintage with a vibrant, tangy and elegant mood of morello cherries, wild strawberries and rose petal lift. I love the way it’s driven by cool acidity, marrying with beautifully fine tannins to define a streamlined and perfectly polished fuselage of long-distance endurance of Burgundian proportions."
2022 Single Vineyard Jacoben Pinot Noir
95 points
"I love the elegant restraint of this cool, humid season, and this single vineyard in the lower Derwent Valley exemplifies its mood with tension and endurance. This is pinot noir scaffolded for the long-haul, with an intricately engineered framework of super-fine tannins supported with all the structure of impeccably poised natural acidity. I love this dynamic, setting a longevity much more Burgundian than it is Tasmanian. Serious stuff."
2022 Chardonnay
94 points
"Lowestoft is a rapidly-rising star in the Tasmanian chardonnay firmament. Its estate release captures all the tension and exotic fruit concentration of a spectrum of sites across the north and south of the state, but what really sets it apart is its refined struck flint reductive distinction. Fine-boned, mineral structure, bright acidity and a fleshy fruit profile complete a long and alluring finish."
2022 Pinot Noir
94 points
"The distinguished Lowestoft vineyard of old Derwent Valley vines takes the lead in this blend, setting a magnificent core of enticing fruit purity. Delightfully exact red cherries, strawberries and raspberries are subtly lifted by the exoticism of (presumably) a touch of whole bunch fermentation. Vibrant, cool season acidity contrasts juicy fruit succulence, laced together with supple, fine grained tannins. Grand potential."
Speaking on his list of the Top 250 Australian wines, Stelzer said:
"Australia’s top vineyards and best wineries have never been in a finer place than they are this year, and there has never been a more pertinent moment for wine lovers to restock their fridges and cellars...
"In response to popular demand, and as an opportunity to give something back to Australian winemakers and wine lovers at this time, it’s my great pleasure to share my Top 250 Australian Wines of 2024. These represent the finest line up of Australian wines I have ever tasted...
"There’s something in this list for everyone, with prices from just $18 all the way to $1250. It must be emphasised that the rising cost of growing, making and selling wine in Australia today is such that there are big dividends for spending more. This year I’d urge you to budget a minimum of $30 for any respectable bottle. It’s no accident that the average price of my list comes in just over $100 this year. Premium wine production is the future for Australian wine, and on current evidence, it’s the present, too."
Read the full Top 250 Australian Wines for 2024 list online here.