Kooyong Meres Pinot Noir 2021

Fruit sourced for Meres is from some of the most exposed of all Kooyong’s Pinot Noir plantings. The vines are heading out of their youth and are low in vigour, the soils are light on topsoil and heavy on clay subsoil. On paper, it doesn’t sound THAT different. In the glass, it is THAT different – Meres is beautifully, arrestingly aromatic, pure in fruit intensity and fine. Fruit, picked on the earlier side of ripeness, is celebrated with a lifted bouquet of cherry, cranberry, plum and anise. Earthy, savoury notes revolve around a solid core of red berries on the palate with gentle sweet spice and an intriguing peppery finish. As it fans out across the mouth, feel those fine tannins, juicy acidity, enjoy the delicacy of it all which is sustained and vibrant to the end. Pure flavour-soaked appeal.

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