Chain of Ponds Morning Star Pinot Noir 2023
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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The fruit has been sourced from a combination of three vineyards and involved five fermentations with some whole-bunch influence and destemming, all designed to build vibrancy and complexity into the wine. That additional palate firmness has been bolstered by 30% whole-bunch inclusion. Interestingly, a small amount of the Beaujolais variety Gamay was added, presumably to add a little floral lift, and it seems to work rather well. Has a slightly savoury, truffly character, bright red fruits, a seamless palate, and a long finish. Ideally suited to medium-term drinking.
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.
