Chain of Ponds Reserve Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2025
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This structured, stylish Pinot Noir is the result of barrel selection from the best vineyards. Opens with a mix of strawberry and raspberry on the nose, as you might expect. The palate has a lovely, supple, textured feel with a velvety finish. There’s good structure and a thread that runs deep and long, with firm, super-fine tannins and neatly integrated oak. It will certainly handle more time in the cellar but is drinking really well now. Decant it before serving, it’ll open up nicely.
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.
