CARRICK BILLET-DOUX PINOT NOIR 2024

Winery notes (2024 Vintage)
"Billet-Doux (Be-yay-do, meaning love-note in French) is wine in it's rawest form made in keeping with our house style, but without any refinery – no fining, filtration or additions. Making wine in this way relies on the having great fruit quality and is a testament to the hard work of the vineyard team. Front label artwork is by artist and designer Elana Marie – @elanaski

Hand-harvested, destemmed and wild fermented from a co fermented blend of Pinot Noir clones – 5,6,13 and Abel. Pressed off after 29 days on skins, and matured in oak barrels for 10 months. Bottled on-site by hand, without any adjustments, fining or filtration. No sulphur is added.

Full, moreish and powerful, the 2024 Billet-Doux is an impressive wine. Notes of forest floor, blackberry and black doris plum mingle, give the wine a dark and broody appeal. Soft tannins and a long finish round out the palate."

Rated Excellent & 94/100 Cameron Douglas MS, June 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Intense core of purple and ruby with a definitively pink rim. Aromas of plums and dark raspberry, black currant then spices of earth and barrel. There are some floral moments with a dark velvet rose idea. On the palate a taut and poised texture led by fine dusty tannins and a backbone of acidity framing the dark berry flavours that mirror the bouquet. Complex, youthful, dry and lengthy. A very well made wine with freshness and poise, youth and promise. Best drinking from 2027 through 2033+."

92/100 Stephen Wong MW, The Real Review, August 2025 (2024 Vintage)
"Deep violet. Compact, glossy and dense with flavours of blackberry, cherry and root spice, this is held in a firm structure of charcoal tannins. Unyielding and extremely young, the palate is very primary and presently quite chewy. Submerged under this structure is a vibrant core of purple fruit and spice. Give it a year to meld in bottle and watch it slowly shed its brooding shell over the mid-term."