Pannell Family Pinot Noir 2024

I am tentative every year to say this, but if you love Pinot Noir, then this should be your yearly case buy if not multiple cases. This is extreme value and supreme quality. Dancing red flowers, Kangaroo Paw and Rosella, wild strawberries, pink lady apple and cranberries. Billy tea and white peppercorn. Oak spice comes through as cinnamon powder and tannins are mighty and fine. There is some red clay and terra cotta, a raspberry smack to the acidity and once again long flavour and length. Joyous in every way. Dancing in the afternoon sun is the perfect pairing for this wine, or try with some creamy goat cheese and baked tomato jam. Drink now or cellar for 3-4 years further.

Shanteh Wale

Contributor at Wine Companion

Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.

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