Double Oaks Pinot Noir 2020
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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This is an immediately engaging Pinot Noir, displaying excellent fruit and winemaking skills to maximise its impact. Crushed and destemmed before fermentation in open vats for 22 days before basket pressing. Then the fruit demanded a portion of new oak which in this case was about 25% for 12 months. It strikes immediately with a mix of plum and black cherry on the nose with a slightly rustic forest floor type thing happening. The palate packs some power within its light to medium body with gravelly fine tannins and a nice sustaining acidity providing a long finish. I could not help going back to this wine after every sip.
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.
