Port Phillip Estate Balnarring Pinot Noir 2025
- 95
- $44
- Drink by: 2026-2035
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Offers a different Pinot perspective to its higher elevated Red Hill sibling. The Balnarring vineyard is just 50-60m above sea level and the fruit here was fermented in large format wooden foudre as well as stainless steel. Solid crimson hues. Builds on a deep, savoury-influenced style where dark fruits mix with violet florals, dried herbs and rosemary, baking spices and an added dimension of game meat savouriness. Excellent depth of flavour and interest explored over a line of lacy tannins. Superb balance, light and shade, and still has so much to offer over more time in bottle.
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.
