Payne’s Rise Brody’s Block Pinot Noir/Syrah 2024
- 95
- $39
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A blend of 55% Syrah and 45% Pinot Noir, from vines aged 18 and 25 years respectively. Fifteen percent was matured in new French oak barriques, with the balance in two- and three-year-old 500-litre oak, contributing structure rather than overt oak character. Total time in barrel was six months. The colour is striking: an opaque bluish purple-red, reminiscent of a glorious Australian dusk. The nose is exuberant and deeply vinous, so alive it almost seems to greet you. Fresh red cherry leads, followed by blood plum, açai berry and mulberry, with a hint of pomegranate. On the palate, it is incredibly pleasant and moreish, avoiding any candied or overly sweet fruit character. Instead, there is a subtle twist of bitter-edged fruit tannins, supported by fine-grained structure. Plenty of fruit intensity and well-balanced sweet and pungent spices, green peppercorn, clove and dark chocolate, drive the wine forward. A fantastic result.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
