Riversdale Estate Centaurus Pinot Noir 2022
- 95
- $80
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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While the state of Tasmania is a single wine region, it is in vintages like 2022 where you can see the sub-regional differences. In parts of the state, it was the coolest and wettest season in many years. In southern Tasmania where Riversdale Estate is located at Cambridge, it was relatively dry, and it shows here in a beautifully expressive, textural Pinot. Concentrated in both aroma and flavour. There’s a lot to like from the first sip with its black cherry, red plum, gentle pepperiness, rose aromatics and woody spices. Oak is well managed and integrated. The palate is plush, fine-grained and persistent. Smart viticulture and winemaking on show in what wasn’t an easy vintage.
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.
