Charles Reuben Pinot Noir Next Expression 2025
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2037
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Arrives in a bright cherry colour – in shades of brilliant red-maroon – a real eye tempter which follows through pretty smartly into a wine alive in cherry and summer berries. Sweetly fragrant in rising rose florals, cherries, berries, raspberries, dried herbs and blood orange zest. Well rounded and beautifully integrated, the palate rolls through alive in fruit and herbals with a fleshy tannin, well-structured elegance. Winemaker, Peter Dredge, is the man behind this smart youngster. He has built in some nicely restrained oak features together with cola, cocoa and baking spices. Closes on a suitable cherry pip dry finish.
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.
