Shaw & Smith Lenswood Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
- 95
- $100
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Hand-picked and hand-sorted, then long, slow ferments in wood and stainless steel vats, followed by 10 months in 500-litre puncheons, 30% new. An attractive and suave autumnal opening makes for a strong start — dark cherry, raspberry compote, pine needle, nutmeg, crushed leaves, forest floor. There’s some emergent cassia bark and fresh-cut beets with air, and a lovely tilled-earth tone adding depth. The palate has a beautiful, supple texture with woody spice, forest floor and delicate mushroom dancing around a core of dark cherry and raspberry fruit. Quite firm tannins provide frame and long carry, with forest floor tones permeating the mouth perfume. This is exciting — a seductive, velveteen and sexy Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir of savoury complexity, depth and, importantly, structure. Very good.
Tom Kline is a wine writer, reviewer, presenter, and educator based in Victoria, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent for the internationally respected publications Jasper Morris Inside Burgundy and Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux, where he highlights the top tier of Australian wine for a global audience. Tom also writes for leading outlets including Decanter (UK), Wine Spectator (US), and Halliday Magazine, among others. An experienced wine show judge and WSET educator, he has authored several consumer-focused wine courses aimed at making wine more accessible and engaging. In 2023, Tom was awarded Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column at the prestigious Wine Communicator Awards, presented by Wine Communicators of Australia.
