The greatest Australian pinot noirs are those of Gippsland’s Bass Phillip. There is nothing new about my ratings of these; I was lucky to be present at the first official tasting in 1991 of the pinots made by Phillip Jones between 1984 and ’89, and knew I was in the presence of greatness.Jones is down to earth, at times taciturn, and not infrequently the most disorganised winemaker of his era, pub…
