Tarras The Canyon Pinot Noir 2021
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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The fruit for the team’s flagship Pinot Noir is sourced exclusively from a single vineyard, The Canyon Vineyard, at Bendigo in Central Otago. The wine is only made when conditions offer fruit of sufficient quality. Maturation is in French oak, with around 1/3rd of that new. This is a classic Central Otago Pinot. The complexity here is immediately apparent. The colour is a deep crimson with a ruby rim. On the nose, we have notes of truffles, wild raspberries, kirsch, leather, tobacco leaves and black cherries. Even a light dusting of cocoa powder. Seamless in structure with very good length, this is powerful and focused, finishing with fine powdery tannins. It will provide pleasure for at least a decade.
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.
