Red Hut Central Otago Pinot Noir 2024
- 91
- $26
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A new name on the New Zealand wine scene with some impressive wine credentials, Red Hut, is the brainchild of ex-Villa Maria chief winemaker, Corey Ryan, and wine merchant, Mike Farrugia. Sourced from the Lowburn wine district, an area dominated by and known for Pinot Noir, this is one smart, sub-$30 Central Otago Pinot. Mid-crimson in colour with aromas and flavours that are bright and cherry-infused, it nicely blends fine, sinewy tannins with a strong Pinot presence. Red cherry, red currant, rosemary, fennel seed, thyme and light spice cross the palate with a dusty earthiness. Central Otago ripeness is on display here, flowing, full and supple, ripe and easy.
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.
