Brown Brothers Pinot Noir 2025
- 91
- $20
- Drink by: 2026-2029
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Victorian Pinot Noir, including fruit from the King Valley, this is terrific value for anyone looking for an easy drinking, flavoursome wine from this decidedly tricky variety. After five days skin contact, the wine is pressed into a mix of French oak barrels and stainless steel tanks for nine months maturation. Bright crimson in colour, the nose reveals aromas weaving through various spices and herbs, raspberries and red fruits, a touch of leaf litter and hints of cherries. A wine of medium length with a flick of acidity, it finishes with gentle tannins. Attractive drinking now and over the next three 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.
