Pike & Joyce Vue du Nord Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2035
Share
This is made from a combination of five clones sourced from the Adelaide Hills. The ferments are kept separate based on block and clone, and only blended after maturation. It was hand-picked and then fermented in small vats with some whole bunch clusters and whole berries. The ferments were further plunged by hand once a day to achieve tannin extraction that is quite gentle and in keeping with the style of the wine. On the nose, you get the typical sour with a touch of dried herb and truffle with a lift of spices all swirling through it. But on the palate, it comes alive with those dark cherry characters supplemented with nice oak treatment and a combination of herbs and spices that provide complexity and intrigue. It has quite a racy acidity, which is an important component of classic Pinot, providing the definition and precision to support the palate structure.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
