Piccadilly Valley is Ashton Hills' entry level or 'village' wine with all grapes coming from the Adelaide Hills' coldest, wettest and most humid wine sub-region, the Piccadilly Valley. About half the grapes for this wine comes from 16 of Ashton Hill's own selections with the remaining grapes purchased from two neighbouring growers. The three vineyards have amongst them the oldest pinot vines in 'The Valley' and all are managed in such a way to ensure small crops and maximum flavour concentration.

"96 Points. Owner/winemaker Stephen George was one of the pioneers of pinot noir in the Adelaide Hills. It shows some colour development; as always, has an extremely expressive and complex bouquet with forest undergrowth and spicy red fruits; the palate in a precise replay of the bouquet, with great length and immaculate balance. From: Adelaide Hills, SA. Drink: to 2016" - James Halliday, Top 100 Wines, The Weekend Australian, November 14-15, 2009.

"95 Points. Stephen George makes a couple of pinots each year, this engaging Picadilly Valley version from his own and growers’ fruit offering an excitingly complex matrix of aromas, cherries wrapped in anise spice to ferns and bubbling coq au vin juices, followed by spicy flavour and a soft, silky texture. $33 14.5% alcohol. Adelaide Hills." - Tony Love, Top 100 Wines, The Adelaide Advertiser, November 2009.

"Grape ripeness at Ashton Hills in 2008 coincided with a 15-day record breaking heat-wave in March. Because all our varieties and clones ripened at the same time we picked everything and stockpiled it for a week or so at 4 degrees celsius before even thinking about crushing. (Usually vintage is rather more relaxed with picking on one day followed by crushing the next.)... The result for the 2008 Piccadilly Valley wine is a lot of flavour and a little more alcohol than usual. Due to the use of some bunch stalks in the fermenting wine there's also a bit more tannin. Being a natural preservative this will extend the wine's cellaring potential." - Notes from Ashton Hills.