Best’s Great Western Pinot Noir 2023
- 92
- $27
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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This keeps giving with every sip. Starts with a glistening red colour in the glass which attracts the eye. It’s followed by the scent of dried flowers, cherry, red plums and earthy notes which puts the drinker on alert. This is the start of a quality Pinot Noir. It’s the antithesis of a sweet fruited Pinot, rather it embraces lively florals and bright red fruits and spice with earthy overtones in rhubarb and a touch of forest floor. Brisk in acidity, sinewy in tannin, it finishes fine, clean and with an edgy tension. The Grampians region is closely associated with Shiraz, but Best’s proves that it is also capable of producing some pretty smart Pinots and well-priced Pinots at that.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
