Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $44
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A wine that is in no hurry, no sir. It takes its time from the slow build-up of the bouquet through to the firm hold across the palate. It teases the drinker with its clear and obvious potential and it’s easy to fall for its considerable charms. They emerge on the tightly coiled fragrance in black cherry, wild strawberry, rose, dried herbs and baking spices – all very neat and super fine. The palate highlights a grand display of ripe, generous red fruits, spices and herbs with a gentle injection of savouriness. Soaks up the French oak (18% new) and delivers a textural smoothness that runs long.
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.
