Bec Hardy Garden Series Adelaide Pinot Noir 2023
- 90
- $25
- Drink by: 2023-2025
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Cracking value here. Twenty bucks for a lovely Pinot Noir is a rare find. The fruit is from a single vineyard known as the Osmond’s ‘Clay Creek’ block located just outside McLaren Flat. The grapes are destemmed and chilled before a 24 hour cold soak and fermentation. The ferment is for 8 days on skins, before pressing to older oak for three months. Bottled early to ensure freshness. Pale crimson, the nose is fresh and fragrant with varietal Pinot notes. Florals, strawberries, gentle berry notes. This is nicely balanced with soft tannins and a slippery texture with a hint of crunchy acidity. Terrific drinking as we move to summer. Drink now and for a few years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
