Hirsch Hill Pinot Noir Toolangi 2024
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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From the Toolangi sub-region in the Yarra, this is a step up. The colour is a brighter, more vibrant crimson. The wine has good focus from the very start and offers notes of florals, spices, raspberries, truffles and violets. Delightfully aromatic, there are hints of sour cherry notes which emerge on the finish. An attractive, lingering finish with satiny tannins, a pleasing freshness and good balance, this will provide pleasure for the next five to six years, likely longer.
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.
