Allinda Limited Release Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2019
- 94
- $35
- Drink by: 2021-2030
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Beautiful Yarra Valley Pinot Noir. Opens on the nose with that compelling and engaging combination of sour cherry and spicy red fruits showing a little dried herb influence. The palate is medium bodied with excellent depth and concentration. Plenty of hands-on for this baby. Hand plunging in open fermenters and 30% whole bunch adding some structural poise. It spent 10 months in oak with the 20% new just adding that lift. Bottled unfiltered and unfined. There is structure here that will support ageing in the medium term.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
