Paracombe Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2024
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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The fruit used here is selected from two different Adelaide Hills vineyards, which represent a range of Pinot Noir clones. The colour is a red/russet and the aromas weave through cherries, dried herbs, raspberries and spicy notes. These most attractive fragrances linger and there is also a touch of leaf litter. The wine of medium weight. It is seamless and seductive with very good length through to silky tannins, which are deceptively abundant. Well balanced, this is a cracking Pinot Noir from a top vintage for the region and it represents great value. Enjoy over the next five to seven years.
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.
