TROPHY WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN PINOT NOIR CHALLENGE 2026 & TROPHY FOR BEST TASMANIAN PINOT NOIR

Our 2025 Pinot Noir has all the classic blue fruits that come from the Coal River Valley’s unique black clay soil. The fruit characters are dense, with a touch of Campari spice aroma, from the small whole bunch parcel. The region does fruit density exceptionally well, but we’ve tried to tease out a little perfume delicacy.  

The fruit was hand-picked in two parcels. The first parcel fermented entirely as whole bunches. The second was de-stemmed, then cold soaked for 5 days before a slow wild fermentation. Both parcels were pressed into small seasoned French oak for malolactic fermentation and left on lees for 9 months. 

The wine was bottled on 4th February 2026 and is limited to only 350 cartons.

Steve Flamsteed (Giant Steps) and Brad Rogers (Stone & Wood Brewing Co) have been friends since their Roseworthy days. Their new venture is a vineyard in tas’s Coal River Valley.

The Decades vineyard began life as ‘Touchwood’, planted by the Sextons in 1990 to pinot noir and chardonnay on a north-facing hill on the ‘Woodlands’ property at Tea Tree. The famed black clay soils of the Coal River Valley have a calcareous base here. Rogers and Flamsteed have planted an additional 8ha to the 3 existent hectares when they purchased in 2022. Most of this extra is pinot noir.