Cloudbreak Premier Collection Pinot Noir 2024

A wild journey through strawberry fields, into the shrubbery of raspberry bracken and deep into pine needles and the dappled light of a forest. So is the winding nature of the aromas of this wine. It’s quite deeply pigmented and a pool of spice and growing things. Some juniper and bay leaf, cassis and bramble. The palate has a halo of Acai fruit followed by willow stem and shiso leaf. I could go on and on but instead I’ll say this isn’t a cookie cutter wine, it’s a jigsaw of flavours, neatly tucked with lingering acidity and some real sinewy tannins. Curious to the fruit source because it has some stuffing and projectile promise throughout its bones. What a surprise package. Drink with confit duck, cavolo nero and kampot pepper speckled throughout. Drink now.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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