Riversdale Estate Centaurus Pinot Noir 2021
- 93
- $80
- Drink by: 2023-2028
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This is one time when a tasting descriptor that reads “interesting” actually means something positive and downright intriguing. The scent gives an inkling of mystery: black fruits, aniseed, Dutch liquorice, thyme. The palate backs it up with a running thread of pepperberry, pepper spice adding an exotic note. Latching on to it ushers the taster into a welcoming world of cool climate Pinot Noir where tomato bush and herbal notes play and mix with chocolate, black fruits amid a slow release force of Pinot flavour that is sustained and, well, interesting. Savoury, earthy tannins bring complexity and depth.
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.
