Bindi Dixon 2021
- 94
- $75
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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Some winelovers may remember this as the Composition Pinot Noir. It has been renamed but is as good as ever. This is the first cab (no pun intended) off the rank in a six pack of Pinots that surely exceeds anything we have seen before from an Aussie producer. The wine comes from grapes that have been declassified from the Original Vineyard (planted back in 1988), as well as Block K (planted in 2001). Matured for 11 months in French oak with 10 to 15% of that new, it has a deep red hue with notes of warm earth and truffles. This is the most rustic of the array of Bindi Pinots. Animal skins, red cherries, florals and an attractive warmth to it too with some tobacco leaf notes. This is an elemental style and there is a hint of sour cherry on the finish of the palate. Thanks to fine acidity and very good length, this will offer pleasure over the next six to eight years. A little more edgy than some.
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.
