Eldridge Estate Single Vineyard Gamay 2018
- 92
- $50
- Drink by: 2020 - 2025
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Gamay is a wine for our times. It’s super friendly, fleshy, red-fruited and is an all-rounder in the food matching stakes.
Gamay noir is also a progeny of pinot noir, so it has noble aspirations. All of this is by way of introduction to the Eldridge Estate gamay.
It’s only competition when it comes to being the best gamay in Australia is Sorrenberg. With the 2018 vintage, winemaker David Lloyd has an expressive, pretty wine – yes, gamay can definitely be pretty – bursting with florals, macerated cherries and the odd confection note. The lick of spice and, especially pepper, sits in the background but lifts the finish and aftertaste.
Wine writers should use the word ‘yummy,’ but there you go . . .
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.
