Small Wonder Auburn Tasmanian Pinot Noir 2023
- 93
- $52
- Drink by: 2025-2028
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Plenty of varietal definition and detail to explore in this young Pinot from the Tamar Valley. It marries the lightly savoury with the sweet fruited in one breezy, medium-bodied Pinot Noir. Ripe cranberry, cherry, plum with Aussie bush scents, dried herbs and earth are interspersed with rose florals, the latter offering a particularly attractive lasting refrain. Lifted and aromatic, spice-fuelled and red fruited, the palate is supported and enhanced by clean, crisp acid. The fruit here is so good, I would be inclined to enjoy it sooner rather than later.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
