Silkwood Estate The Walcott Pinot Noir 2019
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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A single vineyard wine with a slightly deeper colour, this offers red fruits, vanilla, cherry and floral notes with good ripeness. What lifts this above the ‘Bowers’ Pinot Noir (same producer, but at a more bargain price) is that it has a little extra depth, a touch more complexity, a smidge more length and offers some appealing notes of animal skins, root vegetables and forest floor characters with very soft tannins to finish.
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.
