South By South West Pemberton Pinot Noir 2023
- 91
- $40
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Juicy, super slurpy and delicious. Building blocks were laid with Dijon clones 114 and 115 which deliver lovely aromatics and structure, and then everything just seems to fall nicely into place. Red cherry, plum, raspberry, a splash of cranberry and spice – offers lively upfront fruit and nothing but the fruit. Maturation in three-year-old seasoned oak has done its job nicely. Acidity is bright contributing to a delicious juiciness. Tannins are well-behaved allowing the fruit its moment. An underlying autumnal earthiness brings an added layer, but the star right now is that red berry brightness.
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.
