Kooyong Ferrous Pinot Noir 2023

There is something about Ferrous Pinot. Year in, year out, it offers such complexity, natural balance and stunning flavours. Maybe it’s the percentage of ironstone pebbles – higher in this single block than anywhere else on the vineyard – or maybe the naturally low yields? Whatever it is, the ’23 has IT. Enjoy those stunning aromatics, so lifted, so intense and intriguing in violet, lavender and rose with black cherry, red plum, spices and blood orange zest. The wine-scape widens on the palate, the flavours expand with the introduction of an earthiness, undergrowth, dried leaves and fungal notes against a strong showing of concentrated red and blue fruits with cassis and that touch of wild raspberry that gets the tastebuds even more excited. Complex and beguiling dressed in svelte velvety tannins. So good.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic