Holm Oak Hot Shot Pinot Noir 2022
- 96
- $130
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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This is the top Pinot from Holm Oak and it’s a product of a slightly cooler year, which has contributed to its delightful, elegant delicacy. Yet that can be slightly deceptive, as there’s a real depth and flavour intensity here. The clonal mix was adjusted to handle the cooler season, and then it was matured in about half new French oak for a little over a year. Aromas of plum and cherry with some spicy characters and a lift of African violet. The palate is so keenly balanced with fine chalky acidity, fine tannins, precisely delivered oak, and lovely fruit drive and persistence. It’s a classically defined Pinot in that there is power in abundance, but it is delivered with such elegance and poise.
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.
