Punch Lance’s Vineyard Close Planted Pinot Noir 2022
- 97
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is sourced off the Yarra Valley’s first close planted vineyard created by the winemaker’s parents in 1989 – all up, 2100 vines on .25ha. The wine offers a strong argument for close planting which can produce smaller berries and bunches and give overall better crop load balance. This is one impressively complex and exciting wine. There is a seamless integration of fruit, tannin and acidity. It just comes across with almost effortless balance, smooth, velvety and yet with power. Black berries, rich spices including allspice, aniseed and vanilla. Has Yarra Valley succulence written all over it, a quiet richness.
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.
