Reviews
"The ‘half price, funky shit’, describes Timo Mayer, ‘funky shit is gold, you could clean it up if you want to, but why bother, I love it”. He’s talking about reduction as ‘funky’ here. Great to see Timo’s son River in the cellar and taking on some of the duties, and he’s made some of the wines in Germany to hit Australian soil under the Mayer label. This is a pinot noir revelling in the good kind of reduction, so caveat lector/emptor. That being said, a strong contender for best value wine I have seen in years. Freakishly good.
Turned earth, wet slate, screech of tyres on bitumen quickly whipped away to dark and sour cherries, black plum. I love it. The palate is sinewy, touched up with more earth and slate characters, a slip-slide of booze-y cherries underlying, finishing tight, smoky and firm, but very long. Character, intensity and drive are writ large, it’s an incredibly serious and satisfying wine for the bucks. Big glasses and decant; drink with someone you give a shit about."
95 Points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, February 2019, Drink: 2019 - 2028
Timo Mayer wines are a small farm producing hand crafted, single vineyard wine. They believe that wines are made in the vineyard and therefore try to interfere as little as possible in the natural winemaking process. Vignerons to be admired the father son duo are bringing back the funk one wine at a time and this years release of Mayer 'Bloody Hill' Pinot Noir 2018 is doing a fine job at that.
All of their wines are unfined and unfiltered to show the true expression of the land, and their aim is to make wines with a point of difference.
