Tarras Vineyards Central Otago The Canyon Pinot Noir 2019
- 95
- $85
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Central Otago Pinot Noir always brings weight and density of flavour, but this little beauty isn’t about to do the big reveal all at once. It’s one of its big attractions: it simply won’t be rushed. In many respects, the Pinot was more defined and nuanced the second day after opening. Lifted in scents of briar, earth, autumnal leaves, forest floor, black cherry, cassis and spice. Time in bottle has brought with it a lovely complexity aided by woodsy, spiced oak. Highly concentrated in flavour, it draws power as it builds in the mouth. Well composed open-weave, chewy tannins complete this most impressive Pinot from The Canyon vineyard, perched high on the terraces of the Bendigo sub-region.
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.
