Precious Little Pinot Noir 2024
- 91
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2029
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Pinot Noir from an excellent vintage in the Adelaide hills, the colour is a vibrant crimson/garnet. This is a soft style with a gentle texture, offering notes of raspberries, red cherries and dried herbs. It is still slightly closed at this stage, but has some real promise. The wine is of medium length and it does fade a little at the conclusion. The finish is a touch grippy. It should look more rounded and complete in twelve months and then drink well for the next three to four years.
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.
