Punch Lance’s Vineyard Close Planted Pinot Noir 2023
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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Wonderfully fragrant with savoury notes explored. Deep, dense and dark in colour. Rising scents of Aussie bush, acacia, undergrowth and dark fruits. This is a different version of Pinot Noir compared to the ’22, one that is more earthy, savoury in tannins and perkier acidity-wise. Herbals are beautifully expressed on the palate mingling with tobacco leaf, rhubarb, earthy beetroot and both black and red fruits. There is complexity here and it’s going to only increase and extend the wine with 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.
