Castle Rock Estate Diletti Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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This is quite a different style from the standard Pinot from Castle Rock. There appears to be more winemaking influence, and after hand picking and whole bunch fermentation, the wine manages to produce lovely aromas of perfumed cherry and strawberry, but it is in the palate where the difference is manifest. The colour is quite a deal lighter, but there is immense power here with fine chalky tannins and a neatly integrated oak regime combining to carry the wine through to an endlessly long finish. This is a classy wine with the structure and the quality of fruit to handle extended cellaring, and it will be interesting to see how it evolves over the years.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
