Castle Rock Diletti Pinot Noir 2022
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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Next step up the Castle Rock Pinot ranks, this wine is from hand-harvested fruit. Whole bunch fermenters were used (73% of the final wine is from whole bunches), carbonic maceration and cold soaking before ten months in barrels, 18% of which were new. A pale crimson hue here, this wine is immediately more complex and the whole bunch contribution more evident. Notes of truffles, warm earth, brambles, undergrowth, cherries, raspberries, spices and bay leaves. Good complexity here too with very good length with intensity that lingers. Hard not to love that sleek and seductive palate that is finely balanced and will provide pleasure over the next eight 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.
