Curly Flat Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir 2023
- 91
- $69
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The stats on this wine say a lot about the seriousness with which the maker takes its Pinot Noir: sourced off seven blocks of grapes planted between 1992 and 2000 to four different clones for a total of 13 separate parcels of fruit. Weighs in at a modest 12.5% alcohol volume which is par for Curly Flat pinots with aromas of red cherry, red plum, cranberry with lifted and lively aromatic spices. Arrives taut in the glass – it was a cool vintage – with a slight sour cherry savouriness that brings another layer of interest to a palate dusty, earthy and cherry focused with crunchy acidity on board. Finishes with slightly green, sinewy tannins and is just a little short in length.
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.
