Tamar Ridge Single Block Rosevears Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
- 96
- $110
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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The team have fashioned a stunning Pinot Noir from a single block in the Rosevears Vineyard, which is located by the driveway leading to their cellar door. The wine showcases what clone 115 has to offer and received ten months of maturation in French oak barriques, 14% of which were new. Purple/garnet in colour, the nose exhibits notes of cherries, mulberries, plums, raspberries, truffles, spices and florals. A most alluring package, this is a little like what drinking silk might be. Great length, fine balance and good focus, the structure is seamless, through to satiny tannins. A ten year proposition, this is a stunning Pinot.
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.
