Marnong Reserve Pinot Noir 2024
- 94
- $70
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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The Reserve is a selection of top parcels and barrel selection. Here you can see Alex Beckett’s ability to fit together a mosaic of fruit, spice and texture to make a cohesive and ageworthy wine. Some Acai and purple berries, lavender and wild thyme high notes. Morello cherries sit firmly in the centre of the palate. Acidity is chiselled and stretches the line of the wine, long and fine. Oat spice is powdered white pepper and cumin. With each step the range of Pinot Noirs from Marnong show greater complexity and detail, this will age well and slowly. Cellar for a further 3-5 years. For now it calls for butterflied spatchcock and a kumqat glaze.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
