Kooyong Single Vineyard Block Meres Pinot Noir 2020
- 91
- $75
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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Mornington Peninsula’s Kooyong winery boasts so many single vineyard wines, it can be difficult keeping track of them all. Fortunately, each brings forth an individual quality which is heightened by similar winemaking throughout. Meres has a reputation for firmness, tending towards the lean, with subtle aromatics. The 2020 lives up to those qualities. Forest floor and cherry scents mix with just a touch of lively spice bringing both savouriness and red fruited intensity. Maintains a lean approach on the palate, nothing unusual there considering the vineyard, with a firm tannin presence. A well-structured wine, it can be aged a little longer than its immediate single vineyard siblings.
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.
