The Lane Gathering Adelaide Hills Gamay 2025
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Gamay gets a step up and it’s a big step. Starts off in brilliant purple hues and a super friendly approach which immediately wins the drinker over. So far, it has fulfilled the trad Gamay that we almost expect and certainly want and need. But, and it’s a big but, there is a lot left in the tank, a lovely richness across the middle palate that then takes off. Amid the ripe berries – the black cherry, plum, raspberry – lies a source of scents and flavours that come to life bringing with them florals, spice and hints of pepper and sprigs of thyme. It’s a joy to taste with a light savoury earthiness that is beautifully offset by the juiciness of the fruit, the plush mouthfeel and the fine tannins. It’s a joy to see a producer taking Gamay seriously and showing us just what this great variety is capable of.
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.
