The Lane Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2023
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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First reaction is to consider this wine hard to pin down and maybe even a little light on potential. That would be wrong. It’s a quiet one. Take your time to get to know it a little better. Red cherry, cranberry, thyme and spice aromas. Take in the sinewy texture, the snappy fresh, lively flavour and consider what lies in store beyond the immediacy of the sour cherry notes, the hint of bon bon confection, the spice and pepper. It’s coiled and will be rewarding to see it – taste it – unfurl.
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.
