Beresford Wines Emblem Pinot Noir Adelaide Hills 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The fruit for this immensely enjoyable Pinot Noir is sourced from high-altitude vineyards at Kuitpo and Aldgate. There were 8% whole bunches incorporated in the fermentation, before maturation in a range of larger format French oak for six months. A light crimson colour, this is a fresh and appealing style of Pinot with notes of florals, bay leaves, leaf litter, rose petals, cinnamon, spices and red cherries. There is promise here. The wine is finely balanced with a lingering finish and sleek tannins. It should be even better in two to three years and then drink very well for another five.
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.
