Bindi Block 5 Pinot Noir 2021
- 97
- $170
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Another of Michael’s premium sites, the legendary Block 5 is half a hectare on a quartz riddled site. It is considered to give darker, more spicy fruit than the Original Vineyard. Winemaking sees the wine spend a little less than a year and a half in French oak, with around 35% new. Usually around the 150 to 200 cases in a good vintage. A maroon colour, there are again notes of truffles, dark berries and warm earth. There are also spicy touches, dried herbs and undergrowth hints. This is ‘take me now, Lord’ stuff. With firm yet still ever-so-fine tannins, the finish is seemingly never-ending, and good complexity throughout. The palate shows more spices and brambles with the intensity never wavering. A thrilling Pinot. Drink over the next Six to ten 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.
