Fowles Are You Game? Pinot Noir 2023
- 88
- $24
- Drink by: 2026-2028
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The Fowles Are You Game? range is well suited to sporting a Pinot Noir. The duck on the front label knows it and the taster will too. The Victorian blend fits not only the price point but the early drinking style, with plenty of red fruits in action. It has immediate appeal and that’s where it sits. It will not require any further ageing. Wild strawberry, plum, cherry and cranberry fruits are underscored by wild herbs and gentle florals. Acidity rather than tannin guides the wine, and it’s a brisk race to the finish line with a flourish of sour cherry to close.
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.
