Kooyong Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025

With fruit sourced from four celebrated estate blocks, the intention of the maker here is to present an overall snapshot of Kooyong Pinot Noir. It might be added that a top vintage can certainly highlight that intrinsic quality. Brilliant purple-crimson hues. Composition is top notch offering a wine with fleshy, all round appeal. Aromas of red earth, bush scents, leaves, rosehip, dried herbs and dark berries. Woven together in lithe and supple tannins, the palate explores the strong Mornington Peninsula regional combo of autumnal leaf and herbs threaded across bright cherry-dark berry and plum flavours with hints of cocoa, red liquorice spice, cola and an earthy rhubarb light savouriness. There’s certainly a lot to take on board. Nicely judged all round.

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