Marnong Estate Heart Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025
- 92
- $43
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From the estate’s most central vineyard. Dark spice and earth mark the beginnings before a deeper fruit profile emerges in blood plum and dark cherry. Flickers of camphor and a graphite minerality build with air, adding shape and dimension alongside an unfurling of clove-studded orange. The palate follows suit in its deeper, darker aesthetic — blood plum, clove, blood orange, dark cherry, graphite, dried violet. The tannins are firm and tight-grained, putting a corset around it all and drawing good length along with black fruit-laced acidity. Never weighty, but with a brooding sensibility balanced by solid complexity, minerality and structure. Nicely done.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
