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Giant Steps Pinot Noir

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages
11
Community notes
168
Merchant offers
29

What we know about this wine

Critics
93/ 1002024 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
80/ 100168 notes, every vintage
Market price
£18per 75 cl2024 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
Drinking window
2021–2030peak2021 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 237 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Pinot Noir.

Body2.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.4 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin1.8 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5
DrySweet
  • Red fruit · cherry, strawberry, raspberry, red fruit, cranberry
  • Oak · oak, vanilla, clove, cola, baking spice
  • Earth · earthy, mushroom, smoke, forest floor, leather
  • Spice · pepper, cinnamon, white pepper, eucalyptus, licorice
  • Black fruit · plum, black cherry, jam, blackcurrant, blackberry
  • Floral · rose petal, violet, perfume, rose water, lavender

Grapes: Pinot Noir. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£16–£25GBP per 75 cl · 4 priced vintages

2017One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2024

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2021
94 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2021
peak, window 2021–2030
Lowest price
2018
£16 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Pinot Noir monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£202024£182021£252018£162017£19

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Pinot Noir monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 3 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Pinot Noir monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2024£1893—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2021£2594Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2018£1694Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
2017£1988Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018

Where to go next

LWIN 1209417