Collalto Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2019
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2021 - 2026
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The role of the seasons is so evident here.
We go from a lean and almost hungry 2018 pinot noir from Collalto to a very different animal, one with more ripe fruit on display and less obvious herbals.
Black cherry, plum, musky florals, violets, spice . . . there’s a lot happening and that’s just the aroma.
On the palate it’s ripe and fresh: red cherry flavours, robust, full of flavour with just a gentle but highly attractive thread of leafiness.
Shows both focus and elegance, and don’t you just love those dry, cherry pip tannins that bring everything to a clean finish? I do.
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.
