Punch Lance’s Vineyard Pinot Noir 2023
- 95
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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Boasts a lingering, beautiful scent both delicate and so pretty in lifted violet, rose, pressed flowers, dried herbs, raspberry, red plum and cherry. It is amplified, if anything, on the palate which is delivered in sinewy tannins and enhanced with layers of spice and just a touch of earthy undergrowth. The addition of a small percentage of whole bunches (10%) and new French oak (15%) during winemaking pays off here. Finishes firm, fine-edged, red fruited and nicely understated in spices and herbs. Has so much to offer both now and over the next decade.
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.
