Harewood Estate Flux V Denmark Pinot Noir 2024
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Striking labels, the Flux series is basically a way for the team at Harewood Estate to push the envelope. And push it, they do. Maturation here is in French oak barriques, both new and older, with no fining or filtration. These are always worth a look. The colour is a pale crimson/russet. Lifted aromatics here, with spicy notes as well as hints of leaf litter, cherries, bay leaves, smoked meats, dry vegetation and animal skins. Good complexity, the wine has impressive length, sleek tannins, fine balance and zesty acidity. It concludes with a flick of sour cherry on the finish. The wine will drink well over the next eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
