The Lane Gathering Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2025
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2026-2035
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An intelligent and masterly reflection of the Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir style – sinewy and fine textured, vibrant of fruit, bright in acidity and dressed in lacy tannins. And then there’s that cool climate energy on show. All combine beautifully in this wine. Red cherry, sour cherry, cassis, dried herbs, hints of blood orange skin and rose petal aromas. In keeping with the Gathering style, it builds and builds in the glass releasing a leafiness with earth and thyme among the mixed berries, florals. Oak is not a feature but rather a controlled and integrated note, binding a smooth, fleshy texture. Tannins fan out in style. The use of oak is quite a noted style element in the Gathering wines, the winemaker sensing the fruit doesn’t need or want a lot of oak. As a result, the wines shine.
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.
