2025 Onannon Mornington Pinot Noir

Region: Mornington Peninsula |  Grape: Pinot Noir

About the Wine

Enticing Mornington Pinot Noir, full of fresh cherries, strawberries, roses and juicy red fruits. There are such lovely spices in here, along with an earthy autumnal energy.

From the Winemaker

A blend of seven vineyards across the sub-regions of Tuerong, Main Ridge, Shoreham, Red Hill, Red Hill South, Merricks and Flinders. A combination of handpicked and machine harvested fruit. 20 percent of the blend was fermented with 100 percent whole bunch. Every ferment was left on skins for a minimum of 4 weeks, with some batches reaching 9 weeks for tannin development. 5 percent new French oak. Bottled with just one minimal SO2 addition before bottling.

– Will Byron, Onannon

About Onannon

Onannon is three people with one goal. The people are Sam Middleton, Kaspar Hermann and Will Byron, each of whom contributed the last letters of their surname to make Onannon.

A friendship forged in winemaking studies was cemented in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, with each of them serving stints at Coldstream Hills in the Yarra Valley in the noughties. Sam and Kaspar are still based in the Yarra, making wine at Mount Mary, while Will works at a winery on the Mornington Peninsula.

Their goal at Onannon is to craft wines that speak a little of themselves and a lot of their place. Since starting out in 2008, their focus has been Pinot Noir and the regions of Gippsland and Mornington Peninsula, though in 2012 they added a first Gippsland Chardonnay.

This tight band of brothers has garnered a devoted following with bright, expressive wines made in minuscule quantities. They have a great future ahead of them.

Snapshot

Region: Mornington Peninsula, VIC

Country: Australia

Alcohol: 13.5%

Vintage: 2025

Size: 750ml

Closure: Screwcap

Grapes: Pinot Noir

Style: Light to Medium-bodied Red