Frankland Estate Spatburg(down)under Organic Pinot Noir 2021
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- $37
- Drink by: 2022-2029
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Clever play on words here as Spatburgunder is the German equivalent of pinot noir. A little Aussie touch and up pops this neat name. It was unfined and unfiltered with the fruit off the Old Kent River vineyard now in new hands. It was partially whole bunch fermented accentuating the quite beautiful fruit characters. It’s light bodied but packs plenty of power with a structure that is anything but whimpish. Sweet cherry and earthen floor nuances with the oak expertly managed.
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.
