Saint & Scholar With Honours Pinot Noir 2021
- 93
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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A fantastic vintage in the Adelaide Hills gives us a thrilling Pinot. Maturation, usually for around twelve months, was in French oak puncheons with a significant percentage new. This is deep red in the centre, fading a little on the rim. It is an edgy but rather alluring style. There are notes of undergrowth, red fruits, florals, animal skins and raspberries. The oak is deftly handled. Quite savoury all around, this is well structured with a sleek and supple texture. It has the benefit of a few years already under its belt, but surely has at least another three to five years, likely more, of pleasure ahead of it. The palate sees a move more to the strawberry end of the spectrum. A lovely, lingering finish. Lots to like.
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.
