Oraterra Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $108
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This is complex from the get go with twigs, forest floor, dewy earth and clove notes dancing around a core of wild strawberry, dark cherry fruit and blood plum fruit. There’s a good lick of spice in the form of black pepper and ground nutmeg that emerge with air along with a rosehip tea savouriness. With some time in the glass, the perfume clicks into place beautifully to show a complex melding of savoury and fruit notes. It’s cool and slightly nervy in the mouth with a tight funnel of firm tannins readied to wrap around a velvety mouth feel carrying dark cherry, clove, forest floor, cassia and earth. Those firm tannins pull the finish in tight like a corset, drawing linearity and long length with cool acidity helping the cause. An impressive Pinot from a producer clearly on the rise.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
