Tarras Vineyards Central Otago Pinot Noir 2020
- 91
- $60
- Drink by: 2024-2028
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There’s an intriguing wildness here among the ripe, sweet fruit. Don’t you love it when there’s a hint of something wild in a Pinot that sends you off exploring? It’s in the earthiness, the briar and the undergrowth to be discovered in this wine sitting quietly amid the black cherry, plum, herbs and spice. A couple of swishes and it’s awakened. Toasty oak isn’t shy in making its presence felt, but this is a 14% alc. Pinot and considering the weight and body of the wine, it carries it well. Texture is assured and, again, is part of the more robust Central Otago Pinot style. As a four-year-old, it’s ready to go.
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.
