The Battle of Bosworth Expat Pinot Noir 2024
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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There’s very little Pinot grown in McLaren Vale these days, as it was originally designed and planted as a sparkling wine base. This shows that in good years, some mighty impressive wines like this from Pinot can be produced. On the nose, there are fragrances of sour cherry and florals, while the light to medium weight palate is both poised and expressive, with lovely red fruits delivered with a slight savoury truffly character. It’s quite bright and brilliant, with a chalky, slightly grainy texture adding tremendous appeal. It only got a small amount of oak in the maturation stage, so it’s a rather precise expression of the variety. Very appealing.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
