Rowlee R Series Pinot Noir 2023
- 93
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This is Rowlee’s Reserve Pinot Noir, using the best fruit they have from their exceptional high altitude vineyards. It smells like a garden full of red roses, and fresh cranberries, with an orchard of red apples in the next field. A deeper earthy tone keeps you diving back into the glass for another sniff. Here you’ll find fennel seeds, dried thyme and button mushrooms. In the mouth it’s a lighter bodied style boosted by excellent flavour intensity that is still looking very youthful with tangy redcurrants, strawberries and cherries leading the flavours, with 15% whole bunch contributing a Bouquet Garni complexity. Powder-fine tannins, a slightly chalky texture and precise, integrated acidity wrap up an already beautiful wine that will also reward patience.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
