Jip Jip Rocks Pinot Noir 2020
- 92
- $23
- Drink by: 2021-2024
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This wine is from a single vineyard located in the Fleurieu Peninsula, just fifteen kilometres from the Great Southern Ocean. This pleasing Pinot is an attractive crimson. It offers a soft and gentle, yet quite alluring nose, if a little muted at first. With a little time in the glass, it opened up nicely. Brambles, dry herbs, tobacco leaf notes emerge, along with some redcurrants. The nose is offering secondary notes, more than simply primary flavours, and it all picks up on the palate. The wine is nicely balanced and showing very good length right through to the soft, furry tannins on the finish. This wine is delightfully seamless with good intensity throughout. Very good value.
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.
