2023 Block '1989' Pinot Noir

99 Points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review - 29th Oct 2025 Deep, brooding red with a good rim of purple; the bouquet is complex and subtle, with underbrush/leaf-litter, toasty smoky oak and dry stalk aromas in attractive harmony with black-cherry fruit, the palate full and rich, generous and quite profound, with freshening acidity underpinning the concentrated flavour giving it life and energy. A very impressive wine with serious intent and the legs to age well. Great wine.

96 Points - James Suckling, Ryan Montgomery, Associate Editor - Aug 06, 2025 There's a great balance of aromatic perfume and depth of flavor here, with an ethereal feel. Lifted aromas of red cherries, cranberries, blood oranges, pencil shavings, citrus peel, rose petals and crushed river stones. The palate is mid-weighted with fine-grained tannins and a textural, almost metallic mouthfeel, along with a long line of acidity leaving notes of blue, red and black fruits with a lovely savory undertone. Delicious 

2023 Original Block Pinot Noir

97 Points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review - 29th Oct 2025 Deep, brooding red-purple colour, with a seriously savoury, complex bouquet of dry stalks, smoky oak and savoury underbrush scents. Substantial oak input is evident. The wine is rich and full, with serious concentration and fleshy extract, the tannins well in evidence and the finish long and satisfying. Superb, and will be even better when the oak has had time to integrate fully. (1983 planted vines, 40 years old this vintage. Just one barrel produced.) 

 2023 Eastern Peake Intrinsic Pinot Noir

97 points - Shanteh Wale - Wine pilot Coined the pulse of Eastern Peake. Vine age ranges between 30-40 years in age on all three blocks. This is all MV6 grown on grey loam soils over weathered basalt at 430m in altitude. Destemmed to 3000L concrete fermenters, indigenous yeast, daily pump overs and basket pressed to French barriques (Siruge and Dominique Laurent) of which 30% was new. With additional time in stainless tank for settling. Rosella, goji and pomegranate seeds. A flirtation of raspberry, the density of fruit is undeniable. Cigar clippings, sweet maple leaf and rich brown earth. Melted chocolate and bay leaf. Satisfying, lively and with decades of life ahead of it. Yes, more than you will dare to risk. Intrinsic wines live beyond your imagination, there has been a mammoth effort made in the vineyard and it has been rewarded with a show stopper. The mind boggles with where this wine will go and what it will see. A stunner. Drink it with the evening sounds of birds and crickets for company, for that is all you will need. 

96 points - Mike Bennie - The Wine Front ‘The pulse of Eastern Peake!’, cries the laminated (no longer contact papered) notes. Eastern Peake is growing up after forty years. From three blocks on the home vineyard, aged thirty to forty years. All the finery.Beautiful. Red berry fruitiness, game meat, truffle, dried leaves, undergrowth, brambles, pepper, blood orange, green olive. Magic. Harmonious and delicate, pure and lithe. A finery and gilt nature to the wine, a shine and lift, a tension and succulence. It feels fancy from first sniff and doesn’t let up. Offering pinot lovers access to fruit and savouriness, vineyard verity, seasonal characteristics of coolness and paler, delicate nature. Big swirls in a glass and more and more comes up, the information expanding as the wine continues. Magic.Tasted : JUN25, Alcohol : 12%, Drink : 2025 - 2035+ 

96 Points- Ryan Montgomery - JamesSuckling.com A very refined and pure expression of pinot noir, with a mineral line shining through the bright red fruits. Aromas of cranberries, pomegranates, graphite, wet earth, summer flowers and spice. The palate is mid-weighted with firmly framed, fine-grained tannins, a mouthwatering acidity and underlying complexity. A pinot lover's delight.

2023 Eastern Peake Intrinsic Chardonnay 

96 Points - Ryan Montgomery - JamesSuckling.com This could be a love affair between Chablis and the Jura. Aromas of lemon peel, oyster shells, salted nuts, Asian pears, cheesecloth, slate and chalk. The palate is tightly wound with a mid-weighted mouthfeel that is brought together with mineral tension and a mouthwatering finish that persists. The balance of reduced-oyygen character with mineral focus makes this very intellectual and a journey to drink. Delicious. Tasted August 2025 

97 Points - Shanteh Wale - Wine pilot Grown in volcanic loam soils over weathered basalt at 430m of altitude. Indigenous yeasts fermented in 300L hogsheads of French and Austrian oak on full solids. Full malo and additional time post ferment in stainless steel. Like scooping handfuls of lava ash, grass seed and lemon cream up to your face. So is the mystic of Intrinsic, born and grown, this wine tells its story in careful hushed words, demanding you to lean forward and capture every breath. Honeycomb, pink salt flakes and bottle brush. It circles the palate with chiselled phenolics, melting moments of crumbly lemon shortbread. Acidity is so finite and graceful, I am in complete submission. A true bedazzling light in Australian chardonnay, it has my heart and always will. This wine can do no wrong on a table with shellfish, creamy pastas, spatchcock or salty aged cheeses. Drink now and buy a dozen for the cellar and drink in 5, 10, 15 years. Tasted September 2025 

95 points - Mike Bennie - The Wine Front Intrinsic to the excellence of Eastern Peake, no doubt. This is a richer, opulent expression, and I think through recent chardonnay tastings and know that its bandwidth and tempo will be skittled in line ups for those with more filigree, tension and pace. That being said, merit here for concentration of fruit flavour, softness and beautiful, gently palate-staining flow, the harmony of honey butter, hazy, green apple juice, peachy notes, nougat, briny minerality and light toffee characters. By no means developing beyond its years, just relaxed and beautifully, neatly old fashioned in its way. A dapper chardonnay. Alcohol : 12.7%, Closure: Diam, Drink : 2025 - 2032 tasted July 2025 

95 points - Tom Kline - Wine pilot The 'Peake' Chardonnay release, sourced from a 430m-altitude vineyard on volcanic grey loam over weathered basalt. Same winemaking approach as across the Chardonnay range: whole-bunch pressed, indigenous fermentation in 300L hogsheads, full solids, full malo. Opens with fine cedar spice, pear and Meyer lemon, followed by powdery yellow apple, yellow grapefruit and a flicker of flint. Chalk dust and riverstone minerality emerge with air, alongside honey butter and leesy dough notes. The palate mirrors the nose with weight, texture and precision. Spicy cedarsupports, riverstone freshness glides through, and firm chalky phenolics carry persistent lemon- drenched acidity to a long, powdery close. Opulent yet fresh, with brilliant texture and length. The release that confirms Eastern Peake's Chardonnay at its finest. 

2023 Eastern Peake Two Mile Hill Chardonnay

96 Points - Ryan Montgomery - JamesSuckling.com What a wine! Oxidative, nutty aromas of lemon confit, salted nuts, Comté cheese rind, oyster shells, flint and chalk. The palate is mid-weighted and textural, with a saline, mineral drive that brings a nervy, grapefruit-like tension underneath the expressive and rounded mouthfeel. This has all the hallmarks of the finest topped-style Jura chardonnays, with a touch of polish. Delicious.

94 points - Mike Bennie - The Wine Front I noted in the text (huge detail, as always, laminated and stuck to bottles) from winemaker Owen Latta, a reference to rich, red volcanic soils, and the wine feels of mineral and generosity. Chalky succulence, sweet, stone fruit and appley characters, light manzanilla notes, toasty, salted cashew and faint, Japanese ginger tones with nougat dashed with cinnamon through the lot. It’s opulent in a way, broad and spreads well in the palate, a clatter of limey acidity lifts things, though you’d say the wine is a little lazy and ponderous if being lyrical. Then again, it sits well for me, lots of flavour and character on hand. I like these slower, sticky chardonnays.Tasted : JUN25, Alcohol : 12.6%, Closure : Diam, Drink : 2025 - 2031 

95 points - Shanteh Wale - Wine pilot Planted in red rich volcanic soils. Indigenous yeasts fermented in 300L hogsheads of French and Austrian oak on full solids. Full malo and additional time post ferment in stainless steel. This is full of bergamot, lemon zest and peach fuzz. Roast pumpkin seed, cornmeal and cracked terra cotta. Orchard fruit manages to provide an arch of fruit nectar whilst its stony pithy mid palate wipes the honey tones and shines a light on its nutrient dense earth inflections. Acidity is well folded into the body of this wine. There is great clarity of site here and a wine for drinking now with gruyere toasties or waiting patiently another 6-8 years 

94 Points - Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate The 2023 Two Mile Hill Chardonnay is a rich toasty wine, yet it is tethered to the rails of cool acidity. This is both taut and mineral while also displaying attractive amplitude and complexity as well. I like it so much. There are notes of salted yellow peaches, lemon flesh, chalk, green apples and cashews. The chalky texture that lingers after the wine is gone is a particularly attractive trait. Warmly recommended. 12.6% alcohol, sealed under Diam and wax. 

2023 Eastern Peake Mount Block Pinot Noir 

96 points - Shanteh Wale - Wine pilot This block was established in 1994, all MV6 and sits at 430m in altitude. Only two other single bottlings have been created in the past, being 2012 and 2016. Typically this forms a large part of Intrinsic, with this vintage getting a little special attention from a few choice barrels. Destemmed to 3000L concrete fermenters, indigenous yeast, daily pump overs and basket pressed to French barriques (Siruge and Dominique Laurent) of which 30% was new. With additional time in stainless tank for settling. Crimson hues begin in violets and Wisteria and move into the Davidson plum and blackberry territory. There is power and muscle here with a cloak of very powdery tannins. A middle palate moment of pause, some plump mulberry and clove. Bitter dark chocolate and christmas spices. A fascinating first look at the Mount Block and a wine with plenty of intrigue and cellar potential. Choose tenderloin or scotch filet for this. 

95 Points - Ryan Montgomery - JamesSuckling.com Bright, fresh and with just the right amount of funk to make this quite appealing. Aromas of red cherries, wild raspberries, blood oranges, flowers, graphite, cured meats, forest floor and spices. The palate is light- to medium-bodied with finely tuned tannins and a tightly wound mouthfeel that leads into a mineral-edged finish. Delicious.

94+ points - Mike Bennie - The Wine Front From a block established 1994, and only twice (2012 and 2016) has it been released as a single block wine.A firm, tense and brightly lit wine. Set to red cherry, raspberry, cranberry with touches of bay leaf, lantana, dried mixed peel and pepper going on. Quite the chiseled, textural feel, appealing in that way and you’d say precise too. It feels quite vin de garde, a wine that is leaner and firmer than expected now, not without pleasure, but apt for long, longer term cellaring and getting the truffle, savoury, earthen aspects to coincide with drinking. An excellent wine for that, and great to see.Tasted : JUN25, Alcohol : 12%, Closure : Diam, Drink : 2029 - 2035+ 

2023 Eastern Peake Two Mile Hill Pinot Noir

96 points - Shanteh Wale - Wine pilot Planted on weathered basalt and volcanic soils. Destemmed into open a top fermenter, indigenous yeasts and pump overs daily. Basket pressed to barriques with monthly top ups. With additional time in a stainless tank for settling. Raspberry and

baked rhubarb take centre stage here with red pepper strands and a warm hug of mace. Some sweet cinnamon and baked rye bread as well. The

coiled red fruit delivers its friendly nature in the middle palate with a slight jubey quality countered by woven acidity and powdery tannins. Very

complete and refined, while each sip feels effortless and yet beguiling. This is drinking well now and will continue to do so for another 8 -10

years. Perfect for a veal ragu with lots of glistening onions.

2023 Eastern Peake Taché (pinot noir rosé)

95 points - Huon Hooke - the real review Attractive mid-depth salmon-pink colour wth an orange tinge, the bouquet complex with quince-paste, honey, pomegranate juice and almond characters, the palate likewise complex, rich and yet light on its feet, with a delicious flavour profile and great harmony, the finish dry and appetising. This is a seriously tasty rosé. 21 JUN 2025