Ghostgum Southern Light Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
- 95
- $85
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Another wine from this cool and damp vintage, presenting a triumph in both excellent vineyard management and sympathetic winemaking. The wine comes from three blocks with different clones and varying treatments, including whole bunch and de-stemmed. The final wine spent about 10 months in French Oak Hogsheads, with about 20% new. The aromas are spicy, truffly, with slightly sour cherry nuances. The palate has a deeper forest floor truffle complexity working neatly with those sour cherry flavours. It’s a delicate, finely balanced wine, poised and precise, presenting well as a wine to drink in the shorter term. Further cellaring will bring new dimensions. An impressive wine.
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.
