Hesket Estate Jingella Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir 2025
- 92
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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Jingella is an indigenous word of two potential meanings – a lush, green landscape or hello – depending on the context. To many, the lush greenness of Hesket’s Macedon Ranges location rings true. Middle Eastern spices mingle on the bouquet with black cherry, plum, cranberry, dried herbs, Dutch liquorice and oak. It folds out on fine yet sturdy tannins on a taut palate with an enjoyable freshness through the finish. An undercurrent of smoked goods builds. It’s one complex, dense young Pinot worthy of more time in bottle.
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.
