Paracombe Plateau Pinot Noir 2021
- 92
- $47
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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Top marks to a winemaker who looks beyond the obvious fruit bomb styles now favoured by some Pinot Noir producers. Instead, the soil and the grape’s herbal qualities are explored with a light savouriness kicking in. It’s not only refreshingly individual but, with the credentials of a top vintage behind it, worthy of time in the cellar. Opens with aromas of briar, plum, earth, dried leaves and herbs. Has substance, depth and weight in the glass bringing fruit, red liquorice, thyme and dried herbs together against a background of gravelly, textural tannins. Finishes with a cherry pip dryness. A fine Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
