2023 By Farr ‘Tout Pres’ Pinot Noir

The Real Review Winery of the Year Australia 2025 - By Farr
'Wine by Farr is a stellar producer of complex pinot noirs and beautiful chardonnays, proudly family owned and managed, and strongly vineyard focused. Its wines are all estate grown and made at the Farr family’s winery at Bannockburn in the Geelong wine region.'
- Huon Hooke, The Real Review

Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion
"Every year, in any list, Geelong's By Farr winery is one of the first picked. This is a single-minded producer if ever there was one; this is a producer interested in quality and nothing else."

Ranked #3 of 25 - 2023 Pinot Noirs from Geelong
97 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Deep ruby colour tinged with purple and a bouquet that shows a lot of oak and dry stalk aromas at first sniff, layering with dried herbs and smoked tealeaves. Delicious red fruits come through with just a little time in the glass. The wine is bright and intense in the mouth with coating tannins in perfect harmony with the flavour and acidity—which really enlivens the palate. This is seriously impressive pinot noir, with the structure to age and to cope with hearty foods. 

Ben Knight
Tout Pres always seems  more delayed in how it reveals itself. This shyness most obvious in the nose, not least as that’s the first interaction you have with it. The wine always sits a little lower in the glass than the others, it feels just out of each. The palate gives more immediate notes of peppery spice, not pepper so much, but a prickly, tighter spice with a little more attack. There is a dried earthy note here, some cola, dark cocoa and black cherries. It feels almost brittle at times, certainly in its youth, but you wouldn’t mistake that for delicacy. It’s hard to describe it, but the wine is confident and deliberate, but there is something about this wine that is fragile too. The chalky texture of this wine, paired with the crisp yet fine acid, couldn't be better. I imagine is this part of the wine gives that sense of fragility, it feels like the wine snaps on your tongue. I love it.'