Island of Sliding Doors Pinot Noir 2025
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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Like the Chardonnay in this portfolio, the fruit has been sourced from the silica sands and clays of the Coal River Valley and the sandy sandstone characters of the Derwent Valley. It’s a clever way to introduce complexity almost before you’ve started. The aroma is thoroughly delightful. Fragrant black cherry, a little plum, and some nice forest floor notes. The palate delivers both with structure and fleshiness, which is the perfect combination when you’re seeking high-class Pinot. There’s a firmness through the tight structural core, but wrapped around and cuddling it is that warm, fleshy Pinot fruit. And it all hangs together before gathering and focusing to a long finish. It’s a most 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.
