Eddystone Point - A Beacon of Quality | Showcasing the Best of Tasmania

First released in 2013, Eddystone Point realises our vision to create wines that are drinkable, affordable and represent the undisputed quality of Tasmanian fresh produce.

First released in 2013, Eddystone Point realises our vision to create wines that are drinkable, affordable and represent the undisputed quality of Tasmanian fresh produce.

Careful vineyard selection, matching the right varietals with the appropriate subregion within the cool climate of Tasmania, to ensure fruit flavour and quality are maximised. Sourcing and nurturing fruit from across all subregions of Tasmania to produce wines that are complex and show distinct and concentrated varietal flavour.
One of the hardest of all grape varietals to make, this wine displays all the hallmarks of great Pinot Noir. A soft perfumed aroma of strawberries and cream with a touch of spice that continues onto the palate finishing soft and silky with lingering red berry and spice.
Current Vintage: 2018

Gold Medal: National Wine Show of Australia 2019

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A delicate and complex aroma of nashi pear, fresh stonefruits and cinnamon spice, the flavours are explosive, highlighting regional Tasmanian terroir with supple, smooth and long mouthfeel.
Current Vintage: 2019

Gold Medal: 2019 Royal Adelaide Wine Show

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One of the "purest" of all grape varieties the wine makers task is to protect all of the delicate aromas and flavour inherent in the grape.
Our Riesling is a great example of what happens when you get this right. The aroma displays concentrated floral notes of citrus and lime that evolves on the palate into lemon, lime and mineral flavours with a tangy, mouth-watering finish.
Current Vintage: 2019

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Careful vineyard selection, matching the right varietals with the appropriate subregion within the cool climate of Tasmania, to ensure fruit flavour and quality are maximised. Sourcing and nurturing fruit from across all subregions of Tasmania to produce wines that are complex and show distinct and concentrated varietal flavour.

Eddystone Point range is fresh, vibrant and approachable in its youth. Eddystone Point wines are made for everyday drinking. The core of the range express concentrated varietal character with a fresh backbone of acidity, but the youth and curiosity of the Eddystone Point drinker encourages more experimental winemaking inclusion and an element of funk.

Long standing relationships with Tasmanian growers, (many of which grow not just wine-grapes, but poppies, sheep and a variety of crops as well), combined with a dedicated and passionate cool climate viticultural team provides the assurance that fruit quality is always the focus. Eddystone Point reaps the rewards of the years spent by passionate people such as Ed Carr, who believed in the potential of Tasmania to produce premium fruit, and who continue to explore the opportunities presented by the diversity of sub regions Tasmania has to offer.

The attention to detail occurs in the vineyard. Our experienced and passionate viticultural team work diligently alongside our growers, guiding and supporting them to ensure fruit quality is the focus and flavour ripeness is optimized.

It is this investment in the vineyards that sets the winemaking team up to receive fruit of the very best quality possible, which is the key to producing premium cool climate wines.

Stewart Byrne, Winemaker – Eddystone Point

Tasmanian born and bred, Stewart initially began his career studying rocks and soils, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Earth Science (Geomorphology). Upon completing his degree, and while undertaking an Honours degree, he frequently found himself conducting soil analysis for various Tasmanian vineyards as a means of part-time work. This eventuated in spending the following year working in the vineyards at Stefano Lubiana Wines.

Stewart spent the following two years travelling, working and tasting his way around the world’s wine regions, and upon returning to Australia, undertook two degrees simultaneously, obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Oenology and Viticulture, and a Bachelor of Science in Wine Agribusiness from Curtin University, where he received the Leeuwin-Talijancich Award, given to the Dux of the Curtin University Program.

Stewart gained valuable cellar experience working for two years at Stella Bella Wines in Margaret River, particularly working with Chardonnay. He then completed vintages in the Swan Valley (Houghton Wines), Oregon (Elk Cove) and Tasmania (Bay of Fires Wines), before joining Josef Chromy Wines in 2011 as Winemaker. After seven years at Josef Chromy, Stewart has now returned to Bay of Fires to look after the Eddystone Point wines, where his obsession with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir continues.

New Vintage for Pinot Gris

25/05/20

New release 2019 Eddystone Point Pinot Gris.

This is our seventh vintage crafting this wine, and every year it is a wine we are immensely proud of. The ability of cool climate Tasmanian fruit to balance natural acidity among fruit forward wines always leaves a wine of great detail and texture among the palate.

Colour: Pale straw

Bouquet: The wine has lifted spiced nashi pear, and the slightest hint of rosewater

Palate: A lively palate of melon and sweet Bosc pear. Sweet fruit up front but finishes with a fresh crunch of pear

Food Matching Suggestion: Local Tasmanian cheese platter with quince paste and caramelised walnuts

This wine has already winning medals:

Gold Medal: 2019 Royal Adelaide Wine Show

Silver Medal: 2018 Royal Melbourne Show

Trophy for Best Riesling of Show

19/10/19

The Royal Melbourne Wine Awards is Australia’s premier wine event, built on a longstanding tradition of celebrating excellence and innovation in Australian winemaking.

We're very proud to say that Eddystone Riesling 2018 won the Trophy for BEST RIESLING in show.

Results can be found here

Eddystone Point is coming to Dark Mofo

As part of the Winter Feast at Dark Mofo, we are bringing Eddystone Point to Hobart.

The weekend of the 15th, 16th and 17th of June, we will be celebrating all things Pinot, as part of the The Pinot Bar, which we are super excited to be a part of this great event.

A great chance to indulge in the things best food, wines and festivities enjoyed in the deep and dark winter months, before the days grow longer and we move toward a new spring.

We will have some of our winemakers, Penny and Kathryn to help guide and celebrate the Pinot varietal in all it's triumphs, peculiarities, joys and vintages to come.

Eddystone Point Pinot Noir Triumphs at 2016 Royal Melbourne Wine Awards

31/10/2016

Tasmanian wine continues to receive industry recognition with Eddystone Point taking home the James Halliday Trophy for Best Pinot Noir with its Eddystone Point 2015 Pinot Noir at the 2016 Royal Melbourne Wine Awards.

The James Halliday Trophy recognises the importance of Pinot Noir to the Australian wine landscape and the development of Pinot Noir as a mainstream varietal.

This is the second trophy for Eddystone Point's 2015 Pinot Noir with it already enjoying success at the Royal Perth Wine Show earlier this year.

Richard Evans, Eddystone Point winemaker, says that winning this award is a reflection of the dedication and passion of everyone involved with creating a vintage that they are all incredibly proud of.

"We believe that the success of Eddystone can be credited to our whole team which is why we like to call it the 'people’s wine'.

We set the benchmark for quality with an outstanding 2014 vintage which won two trophies as well as medals in every show it entered last year - including eight Golds. With the Eddystone Point 2015 Pinot Noir already being noticed by wine judges, we hope that it will be just as popular with consumers" said Evans.

Pinot Noir 2015

Gold Medal: Perth Royal Wine Showm 2016 Class 33

Gold Medal: Royal Queensland Wine Showm 2016 Class 33

Trophy - Best Pinot Noir: Perth Royal Wine Showm 2016 Class 33

Pinot Gris 2015

Gold Medal: Royal Hobart International Wine Show, 2015, Class 10

Riesling 2014

Trophy: National Wine Show of Australia 2015, Class 2

Gold Medal: National Wine Show of Australia 2015, Class 2

Pinot Noir 2014

Trophy - Best Pinot Noir of Show: Royal Hobart International Wine Show, 2015, Class 27

Trophy - Best Red Wine of Show: Royal Hobart International Wine Show, 2015, Class 27

Gold: Perth Royal Wine Show, 2016, Class 34

Gold: Royal Queensland Wine Show, 2016, Class 34

Riesling 2013

Gold Medal: Royal Hobart International Wine Show 2013 Class 1

Gold Medal: Royal Melbourne Wine Show 2013 Class 96

Pinot Noir 2013

Gold Medal: Royal Queensland Wine Show, 2013, Class 32

Gold Medal: Perth Royal Wine Showm 2103 Class 46

Gold Medal: Sydney Royal Wine Show 2105 Class 23

Gold Medal: National Wine Show of Australia Class 15

Pinot Gris 2013

Gold Medal: 2014 Tasmania Wine Show, Class 8

image courtesy Wine Tasmania

Eddystone Point Pinot Noir 2014

Hobart Mercury, Hobart - July 23, 2016
http://www.themercury.com.au/

A gold-medal winner at every capital city wine show, plus trophies at last year’s Royal Hobart Wine Show. Glace cherry aromas followed by a delicious surge of plum-like juiciness underpinned by soft, silky tannins.

Eddystone Point Pinot Gris 2015

Wine Companion Magazine - August 01, 2016
http://www.winecompanion.com.au/

This is so stacked with flavour - nashi pear, stone fruit and citrus for starters - it seems it must have had some barrel fermentation, but it didn't. It thus stands in all its natural glory at the peak of the tank fermented style of pinot gris.
5 stars / 95 points.

Eddystone Point Pinot Noir 2011

Chris Shanahan Wine Reviews
http://www.eddystonepoint.com/drupal/sites/default/files/Chris Shanahan wine reviews, February 4.pdf

Eddystone Point, a new brand, comes from Accolade Wines' Bay of Fires winery, Tasmania. This is the winery behind the Tasmanian components of Eileen Hardy Pinot Noir, one of Australia's finest pinots, and the outstanding Bay of Fires Pinot Noir. Eddystone gives us the Tasmania pinot experience, from an expert team, at a more modest price.

Eddystone Point Pinot Gris 2012 - 90

Wine Will Eat Itself - March 29, 2014
http://winewilleatitself.com/2014/03/29/2011-eddystone-point-pinot-noir

"A new range of wines made by Penny Jones at Bay of Fires. All from Tasmania of course. Sweetly fruited but not what I would call confected. Raspberry, craisins and cherries. Will please many and has a foresty, undergrowth dimension which balances it well. Asian spice, good massage of tannin. Splays a little on entry but gains shape as it moves through its line. Not a profound Pinot but a good one."

2011 Eddystone Point Pinot Noir - 4/5

Fabulous Ladies Wine Society - March 5, 2014
http://fabulousladieswinesociety.com/2014/03/2011-eddystone-point-pinot-noir

The Lowdown: Silver Medal at the Sydney Royal Wine Show 2014. A new line from the amazingly talented Bay of Fires team down in Tassie, this spunky newcomer has great clove hits with a smooth-as-stone finish. A fantastic bargain that has picked up a few other awards on the circuit so you'll spot it sporting the bling on the bottle shop shelf.

Drink With: Enjoy the Eddystone Point Pinot Noir 2011 with a decadent dish of grilled quail with sticky rice, or a not-so-posh (but decidedly delicious) plate of pulled pork buns."

Eddystone Point Pinot Gris 2012 - 95

Gourmet Traveller Wine - April/May 2014
http://www.gourmettravellerwine.com.au

"Bay of Fires' new second label brings us a very stylish debut pinot gris with clean, pure aromas of pear and subtle spice. The fruit is intense and rich, yet also restrained and delicate. The long, clean finish has a well-balanced tace of sweetness."