{"product_id":"giant-steps-bastard-hill-vineyard-pinot-noir-2024","title":"Giant Steps Bastard Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eBastard Hill lives up to its name - steep, wild, and hard-earned - but the results in 2024 are anything but brutish. This high-elevation site, planted by Ray Guerin in the 1980s and now handled with precision by Mel Chester and the Giant Steps team, continues to reveal its class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter years of cool, low-yielding vintages, 2024 brought more typical Yarra conditions - consistent warmth, solid crops, and a fast, focused harvest. For Bastard Hill, it meant a more compact, perfumed expression of Pinot: layered and detailed, but with a core of presence that sets it apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandpicked and destemmed, the wine was fermented in open oak vats, clone by clone, before spending 10 months in French oak (20% new). The result is lifted and aromatic with rosehip, blood orange, bergamot and framed by fine, savoury tannin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill young and tightly coiled, this is a site with altitude, attitude and serious potential. In 2024, Bastard Hill is one of the more limited of the Single Vineyard Pinots from Giant Steps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"East End Cellars","offers":[{"title":"Bottle \/ Yarra Valley","offer_id":44740737335487,"sku":"19195-1","price":115.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/eastendcellars.com.au\/products\/giant-steps-bastard-hill-vineyard-pinot-noir-2024","provider":"East End Cellars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}