Squitchy Lane Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2021
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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It took a glass of this Yarra Valley Pinot just to simply enjoy before I actually made some notes. That’s always a VERY good sign of a scrumptious, delicious wine. The gorgeous, cherry bright fruit will steal the heart and the tastebuds. Upfront in red cherries, cranberry, pomegranate, iris florals and glacé fruit. A few rose petal notes dot the middle palate, a delicate floral interlude, on a supple textured wine that exudes energy-plus. Sweet fruited, lively and charming it’s good to go right now. Can you age it? You could try. I suspect it will have the same effect on all that it had on me.
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.
