Main Ridge Half Acre Pinot Noir 2025
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2045
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A wine that has rightly gained its own cheer squad over the decades, such is its role in pioneering the Pinot Noir grape on the Mornington Peninsula. Off vines planted in 1975, Half Acre comes with a strong sense of pure pinosity: linear, fine-edged, intense, lively. A swirling aroma mixing cassia bark and woody spices with cherry, cranberry, blueberries, rosehip florals and dried herbs. Tannins are fine and focused, structure is firmly in place – all the better for a long future, noting Half Acre’s strong history of cellaring well – and, above all, there is a sense of purity of Pinot expression. Not showy in the least, it doesn’t need to be, it remains a picture of complexity in berry richness, blood orange, a sprinkle of crushed herbs that lift together with rose florals and earth. Lines of tart cranberry add a final flourish of cool climate beauty.
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.
