Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
- 91
- $44
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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There is instant appeal here with spiced black cherry, dried raspberry, plum, spice, violet and a splash of aromatic rosehip. A lively start to a wine that embraces the kind of middle ground many drinkers enjoy, offering top drinking now but with the ability to age a little further should the desire hit. The perfect drinking proposition! Spices rule a little more than herbals as they join both black and red berry fruits on a palate trimmed nicely by oak and framed in fine, persistent tannins and bright acidity. An elegant Pinot expressing what the Mornington Peninsula does so well with the Pinot grape.
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.
