Tamar Ridge Single Block Kayena Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
- 93
- $110
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The team refer to this particular block as Block 28. It is populated by clone D4V2. Maturation is for around one year in French oak barriques, with a small percentage new. It completes a trio of seriously impressive Pinots from Tasmania from Tamar Ridge and suggests that the team at Brown Brothers always had more than good trout fishing in mind when they brought this estate into the fold. Crimson red in colour, this is a savoury style, tighter and perhaps not as forthcoming as its siblings. Dark fruits dominate here with notes of warm earth, coffee grinds, blackberries and even a hint of chocolate. There is a note that is almost reminiscent of garden compost, but it does add to the complexity and show just how different these three wines are. There is juicy acidity, fine-grained tannins and good length here. Drink this over the next eight to ten years.
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.
