Timo Mayer Close Planted Pinot Noir 2025

Perfumed and tightly coiled. Dark cherry, blood orange and rose sit over layers of spice and whole-bunch lift. There’s a compact, more structured feel here — fine, chalky tannins framing a core of concentrated fruit, with a savoury edge building through the finish. Precise, energetic, and quietly powerful.

Timo Mayer is one of the cult figures of the Yarra Valley, known for his uncompromising, minimal-intervention approach and signature use of whole-bunch fermentation. Working from his steep, high-altitude Bloody Hill vineyard, Mayer crafts wines that are vivid, energetic and deeply expressive of site. Originally from Germany, his philosophy—“bring the vineyard to the bottle”—results in small-batch wines that are pure, textural and unmistakably individual.