Delamere Vineyard Block Eight Pinot Noir 2023
- 97
- $135
- Drink by: 2025-2050
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This is the pinnacle of Delamere’s Pinots, and this is a wine that is only produced when the vintage works. It’s off the oldest block on the estate and displays incredibly intense perfume of spices, dark cherry, damp earth, and truffle-like characters. The palate is a real powerhouse, but it’s held with control and restraint as it’s harnessed by a firm thread of tannin and well-managed oak. This is such a pop, and there is tremendous scope for cellaring.
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.
