Collalto Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2018
- 89
- $35
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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The first rule when drinking pinot noir from the Adelaide Hills is pretty simple: do not expect lush, voluptuous pinot.
Here, we are talking about structure (on the firmer sider) and weight (lighter to medium) and the open embrace of nature – herbs, acacia, briar, pepper and more.
Collalto 2018 pinot noir offers up a taste of said nature, of wild strawberries, dried herbs, tomato leaf, rhubarb.
It’s there on the aroma and on the sinewy palate in a gentle leafiness together with tilled earth, cherry and plum.
Tannins are on the leaner style, adding to the overall linear pinot approach.
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.
