Pike & Joyce W.J.J. Reserve Pinot Noir 2023
- 96
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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This wine honours the co-founder of Pike and Joyce and is only released in exceptional vintages. The colour is quite brilliant, with deep crimson notes evident. The aroma is compelling and captivating from the start, with a combination of strawberry and cherry with deeper plummy notes working in against a backdrop of high-end florals and typical spicy characters. The palate is complex, layered, engaging, and interwoven with many things happening. Primary aromas of roses and a sort of dark forest floor truffly nuanced with spicy lifts and a touch of herbal notes adding further to it. It’s medium to light-bodied but has some power as it drives purposefully to a long finish framed by fine-grained chalky tannins and an excellent use of oak. This wine comes from quite an elevated site and shows both impeccable winemaking and classy quality fruit.
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.
