Mt Bera Wild & Free Pinot Noir 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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A thoroughly enjoyable Pinot Noir from the Adelaide Hills, from a good vintage. The colour is a pale crimson/garnet. We have sappy, briary notes with aromas of raspberries, mushrooms, cherries, florals and hints of freshly unearthed beetroot. Gentle touches of oak are also evident. There is juicy acidity running the length. This is a fresh style with lots to like and it should drink well over the next half dozen years.
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.
