Pertaringa Lakeside Pinot Noir 2022
- 92
- $20
- Drink by: 2023-2027
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For many years, winelovers would moan that the chances of finding enjoyable Pinot Noir for twenty bucks or less was on a par with finding an orangutan in your backyard. These days, it might not be quite so impossible but they are still thin on the ground. We have one for you. The wine spent nine months in French oak, 10% of it new, though you’d never know it, such is the seamless integration. From Adelaide Hills fruit, this offers a deep red hue, a little more than many Pinots but nothing like the colour we expect in a good Barossa Shiraz, for example – it is why colour should always be taken with a grain of salt. The nose offers lovely dried herbs and plums, bright floral notes and red fruits. Mid-weight in style, it is a wine of medium length, though one feels it is building to something and, over the next few years, expect more. There is a delicious cherry liqueur character on the palate too. Lovely drinking today and over the next three to four years – this is a very well made Pinot.
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.
