Ghost Rock La Filles Pinot Noir 2025

La Filles occupies one of Ghost Rock’s lowest and most sheltered vineyard sites. Planted in 2014, its long, flat north-to-south rows enjoy consistently warm growing conditions and typically produce some of the estate’s earliest ripening Pinot Noir.

The vineyard is meticulously hand-tended, with careful leaf removal encouraging both sunlight penetration and airflow through the fruiting zone. The result is fruit of remarkable aromatic intensity and in 2025, a distinctly darker and more brooding expression of Ghost Rock Pinot Noir.

Ripe plum, blackberry compote and cracked black pepper dominate the bouquet, gradually revealing dried herbs, spice and earthy, forest-floor complexity. It is deep and seductive aromatically, yet beneath the darker fruit lies the freshness and natural energy that keeps the wine unmistakably Tasmanian.

For the 2025 vintage, both clones were harvested together and co-fermented using wild yeast. The wine spent twelve days on skins with twice-daily hand plunging before being pressed at dryness. Following extensive barrel trials, just six barrels were selected for the final wine, two of them new French oak, giving a final new-oak component of approximately 30%.

Bottled unfined and unfiltered exactly one year after harvest, this is a wonderfully pure expression of La Fille: dark-fruited, savoury and beautifully textured, with an intriguing combination of intensity and restraint.