Crittenden Estate Peninsula Pinot Noir 2020
- 93
- $37
- Drink by: 2022-2029
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It is hard to imagine a more challenging and devastating season than 2020 in the eastern states, but amazingly some excellent wines emerged. This is a product of tireless diligence in the vineyard to produce an impressive young pinot. All wild fermented in new and used French oak, it has a fragrant mix of florals and raspberry with a little vanilla bean. The palate is light bodied but with excellent intensity with a thoroughly beautiful mouthfeel and quite soft acidity.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
