Pimpernel Vineyards Estate Pinot Noir 2021

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  • $60
  • Drink by: 2024-2031

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A serious Pinot Noir at a serious price point. There is a density, a plushness and a level of complexity that impresses. It’s on the riper end of the Pinot scale – 14% – deep set in colour and aromas of black cherry, plum, lifted spice and notes of acacia and briar. That ripeness has allowed for extended time in oak, 14 months in French barriques (30% new) which brings into play woodsmoke and dark spice. Nicely layered and striking in black cherry and plum fruit, liquorice, earth with tannins ever so supple.

Jeni Port
Wine critic at Winepilot

Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Jeni Port
Date
Variety: Red Wine, Pinot Noir
Categories: Drinks