Nautilus Clay Hills Vineyard Pinot Noir 2020
- 94
- $110
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is a single-site, limited release, which comes from the Clay Hills Vineyard in the Southern Valleys in Marlborough. A classy and impressive expression of Marlborough Pinot Noir that opens with a slightly floral, spicy note mingling with a truffly black cherry character on the nose. The palate, with its deep intensity of fruit, is wrapped tightly with a cloak of chalky acid, fine tannins, and well-weighted oak. It’s created a velvety satin-like finish that is most attractive. It will definitely benefit from cellaring, as age will gradually unlock what is an impressive palate.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
