Lambrook Adelaide Hills Plant Pinot Noir 2024
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Immediate appeal here with a step up from Lambrook’s introductory Pinot Noir to the next level with real elegance and fineness on display. There’s an appreciation of region and site with spices and cherry, black plum flavours working hand in hand with distinctly Hills’ herbals with a light layering of bay leaf and eucalyptus. The latter is a tantalising whisper that doesn’t detract but helps in lighting up the palate. Tannins are fine and lithe, and vanillin oak lays down an added background note through to the finish on this most compact, well- made Pinot Noir.
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.
