Craggy Range Te Muna Road Vineyard Pinot Noir Martinborough 2024
- 96
- $55
- Drink by: 2025--2035
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From the Te Muna Road vineyard in Martinborough, for me, this is one of the very best Pinots we have seen from this legendary winery. Love it. 15% whole bunches are incorporated, with wild yeasts used, and maturation in French oak barriques, 24% new. The colour is a vibrant dark cherry/purple. The nose reveals notes of truffles, cassis, bay leaves, spices, a hint of milk chocolate and leaf litter. A silky texture, there is superb balance here, fine acidity, satiny tannins and excellent length, with the intensity maintained for the full journey. A wonderful Pinot for enjoying over the next decade.
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.
