Delamere Block 8 Pinot Noir 2023

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  • $135
  • Drink by: 2026-2037

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The winemaker suggests this is one Pinot that can take extended ageing. Who is to disagree? All class, this is one sophisticated Pinot Noir. Aromas of cherry, violet, rose, touch of dried herbs, vanillin spice and gentle oak. A light savouriness pervades the wine, an extra layer in a multi-layered Pinot expression. However, at its heart, this is essentially about the fruit and the oak, a partnership that brings a fineness of cherry-berry-red fruits with spiced plums, vanillin spice, red liquorice, cola, dried leaves, tomato leaf and herbs. Comes dressed in super fine tannins, so smart and so fine-edged in detail. The more you look, the more you discover. A Tassie Pinot to excite.

Jeni Port
Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Jeni Port
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Variety: Red Wine, Pinot Noir
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines, Header