De Bortoli Riorett Lusatia Park Pinot Noir 2019
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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This now has a little age and it’s starting to reveal some rather beautiful characters that comes with cellaring time for these varieties. It comes from the Lusatia Park vineyard, which produces such wonderful Pinot and Chardonnay. The colour is still bright and the nose is only just starting to show the first indications of a slightly leathery development, which will only further enhance the attractive aromatics of the wine. The palate merges a slightly gamey truffle combination with a little moist leathery note, adding further complexity. It’s layered and complex, with the fine acidity helping to sustain it through to its focused finish. Make sure you let this one breathe before you drink it because the sweet fruit characters will emerge and complement beautifully that slightly leathery development.
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.
