Miceli Lucy’s Choice Pinot Noir 2021
- 93
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Always impressive to see Pinot Noir given a few years in the cellar before release to allow it to reveal all its glories. This wine has a russet/garnet hue and is finely crafted with extremely well handled oak. Fragrant, the wine is redolent of red fruits, leaf litter, aniseed, raspberries and dry herbs. It is seamless with a fine line of acidity and impressive balance topped by a long, lingering finish right through to the satiny tannins. It has at least another six to eight years of providing pleasure ahead of it.
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.
