Tarras Vineyards The Canyon Pinot Noir 2021
- 95
- $150
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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As a five-year-old, The Canyon brings both stature and structure to this totally seamless Pinot showing. We don’t get to enjoy Central Otago with this kind of bottle age too often, so this is a real treat, a special occasion wine if ever there was one. Aromas are beautifully, artfully set in place – dark cherries, blueberries, damson plums, dried herbs, orange rind, toasty spices, biscuity plum slice. Connected by fine, earthy tannins, the palate carries all before it, dense, layered and smooth, with a Central-style mineral charm. It comes across as a vibrant acidity balancing the ripe, concentrated nature of the wine and also allowing the kind of ageing potential it clearly possesses. Delivered with class and long, herbal-edged finish.
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.
