Cloudbreak Adelaide Hills Limited Release Pinot Noir 2022
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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Again with the stubby bottle – love them. Pinot Noir from the Adelaide Hills, with a 5% contribution of Gewürztraminer. The colour is a lovely pale crimson. There is good complexity with notes of red cherries, undergrowth, spices, a flick of vanilla from the oak and attractive raspberry notes. Good focus and vibrant acidity with impressive length. This will provide delicious drinking over the next four to five 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.
