Pike & Joyce W.J.J. Reserve Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $75
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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The excellent 2024 vintage has provided a number of thoroughly impressive bottles of Pinot Noir from Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills, and elsewhere from the Hills of course, and now we can add this cracker to the list. Fermentation was with wild yeasts and maturation was for eight months in French oak. Maroon/purple hue, this is an impressively fragrant Pinot. We have notes of plums, leaf litter, kirsch, charcuterie and cassis. Supple and sleek, this is finely focused with good energy through to silky tannins. Love it. This should drink beautifully over the next decade. A superb Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir.
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.
