Carlei Green Vineyards Cuvée Stephen Thomson Pinot Noir 2019
- 88
- $59
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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With Yarra Valley pinot noir, we expect ripe, plush fruit. With the Carlei 2019 pinot, we get it. Greets the drinker with well-developed red and black fruits – black cherry, plum – with a touch of rose-violet-anise and earthy, meaty-savoury notes. The latter tend to dominate the palate the longer the wine remains open. It would suit a match with some meaty protein. Tannins are loose-knit, giving the wine an easy flow across the tongue. It’s generous and approachable right now and probably at the top of its game.
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.
