Hãhã Marlborough Pinot Noir 2024
- 94
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The 24 vintage in Marlborough resulted in some high-quality fruit, albeit with lower yields, meaning the concentration and flavour were impressive. The Pinot comes from vineyards in the Wairau and Awatere valleys in Marlborough. The colour is quite brilliant with crimson hues. This is a lavishly textured Pinot of considerable power. The aromas of dark cherry and a little raspberry with some subtle truffly earthy undertones are engaging immediately. The chalky fine tannins, that little bit of natural acidity and some almost understated oak weave perfectly together to carry the wine through to an impressively long finish. It’s smooth and quite sumptuous. 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.
