Pike & Joyce Vue Du Nord Pinot Noir 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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Pinot Noir from Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills has established itself as one of the more exciting offerings on the Aussie wine landscape. Fermentation was with wild yeasts, followed by eight months in a mix of new and older French oak barriques and puncheons. Eight clones are used here and each block/clone is treated separately until after maturation when they are blended. A shining crimson hue, the nose is redolent of soft red cherries, raspberries, spices and herbs, red fruits galore, and a little undergrowth. As to be expected, this is still very youthful, but it is an attractive Pinot with appealing, if slightly savoury, flavours. There is medium length here, a flick of acidity and a silky texture. A Pinot of finesse, to be enjoyed over the next three to five 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.
