Jules Taylor Wines Marlborough Pinot Noir 2023
- 95
- $39
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Marlborough Pinot Noir remains one of New Zealand’s most under-rated wines. The grape lives in the imposing shadow cast by the region’s world-beating Sauvignon and is often a second consideration. Jules Taylor shows us a wine that deserves to be a first consideration. This is a polished wine of some depth with a fragrance that entices in red cherry, plum and seductive Pinot herbals and spice. Medium bodied, gentle and open, it is inviting as a stand -alone drink such is its flavour balance. A herbal edginess provides some cut and thrust across the palate in tandem with ripe mixed cherry fruit, plum and baking spices. Tannins run smooth through to the finish.
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.
