Devils Ridge Block 1 Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2024
- 91
- $19
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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This is a private label Pinot from the Adelaide Hills, which is cracking value. An attractive crimson hue, the nose offers appealing perfumes with red fruits, strawberries, cherries, leaf litter, herbs, exotic spices and violets. This is a supple style of medium length, with hints of bitter almond on the finish. Sleek texture and tannins, this will be appealing drinking over the next two to three years. Will impress even more if it can develop a little extra length in the coming years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
