Russell & Suitor Isabella Pinot Noir 2025
- 93
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2031
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A delicious Tasmanian Pinot Noir which benefits from the Island’s cool climate. There is an attractive elegance running throughout this wine. The colour is a gleaming magenta, and we have notes of boysenberries, a hint of leaf litter, strawberries, spices and a character very much like a creamy raspberry swirl. There is good tension here and length, with a lingering finish and a bright line of acidity, through to satiny tannins. Like this a lot. Six years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
