Mt. Bera Amphitheatre Pinot Noir Zweigelt 2023
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Another Austrian red grape to call the Adelaide Hills home, Zweigelt is a cross between two fellow Austrians, St. Laurent and Blaufränkisch. In 2023, blended with Pinot Noir, Zweigelt has brought a lovely aromatic wine to our attention, medium bodied, fresh with a lively blend of both texture and flavour. Who knew Pinot and Zweigelt could get along so well? Well, the maker knows that both are plush in red berries, cherry, plum and raspberry notes and they are here in force with rosehip florals, anise and spice. The two, framed in fine tannins, work so well, so pretty and lasting. Finishes bright in acidity, firm in tannins and sinewy with some chewy cherry notes to close. What a delight.
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.
