By Farr Pinot Noir Sangreal 2022

Sangreal is the backbone of By Farr, from the family’s oldest vineyard, planted in 1994 by Gary and Robyn Farr on a north-facing slope of bluestone-influenced soil in the Moorabool Valley. It is always the first vineyard to be harvested. The clones are 114 and 115, which the family believe have mutated over time into their own “Sangreal clone”. The wine is made with 60 to 70% whole bunches and aged in a high proportion of new French oak for about 18 months, a recipe inspired by Gary’s regular vintages at Domaine Dujac in Burgundy. The family describe it each year in the same words: seductive, perfumed, seamless in balance and moreish, from a site that wavers very little in difficult vintages and excels in the great ones. By Farr was The Real Review’s Australian Winery of the Year in 2025.

The result is the most perfumed and seamless of the estate’s three single-vineyard Pinots. Fragrant violets and red flowers lead, with red and black cherry, sappy, savoury and woody spice, bracken, graphite and a little toasty oak, and then an expansive, intense palate with silky fruit and assertive, polished tannins, and a long, layered finish.