Oakridge 864 Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2021
- 94
- $96
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Pinot Noir as Mille-feuille? There’s that many layers going on. A herbal, earl grey tea-like tinge with smashed strawberry, some forest fruits coupled with campari and blood orange. There’s a lingering perfume of pink roses and violets that gets up in your nose but really the draw card here for me is the power of the wine. That concentration gets in the sides of your cheeks and refuses to let go whilst a tang of bitter deep red grapefruit at the back of the palate pulls the whole thing together. Tannin is fine, spicy and detailed – lines of a colouring book filled in with all that marvellous fruit.
Morgan Dunn was a Melbourne based sommelier with over 10 years of experience. He was one of our very first Winepilots and wrote a regular wine column for The Australian and contributed to various publications including Noble Rot. In 2017 he was named 'Emerging Wine Writer of the Year' at the Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards as well as receiving the Wine Communicators of Australia award for 'Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column'. He spoke Japanese and was planning to write a book on Tokyo wine bars and wine culture in Japan. In his spare time Morgan played piano, enjoyed snowboarding and went to Escape Rooms with his twin brother. He is deeply missed by many.
