Palliser Estate White Label Pinot Noir 2022
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2026
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Martinborough is one of New Zealand’s great Pinot Noir regions and Palliser has been making superb examples for many years. This is still a very young wine, offering the colour of very pale garnet with notes of spices, herbs, undergrowth, red fruits and hints of raspberries. There is some early and pleasing complexity in a savoury style with good intensity and juicy acidity. A mid length wine, it will drink very well over the next four to six years. Not bad for what is part of their entry level range.
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.
