Marchand & Burch Villages Pinot Noir 2024
- 93
- $40
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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The team employ a range of clones, eight in total, of Pinot Noir for this wine, including several Burgundian clones – mostly 115. Maturation includes 50% use of French oak puncheons, 20% of which were new. A vibrant crimson/purple hue, the nose reveals notes of plums, florals, cherries, truffles, a flick of milk chocolate, red fruits and violets. Cracking fruit here, the wine is a touch from the savoury end of the spectrum. A supple texture with juicy acidity and surprisingly firm tannins, the wine is of medium to good length. The finish sees the emergence of notes of dark cherries and charcuterie. Such promise here, it is terrific drinking now and will continue to be so for at least the next six to eight years. Brilliant value.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
