The Lane Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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The 2024 season delivered a cool, even growing season according to the maker. The Pinot Noir of that season delivers a taste of the soil, of the land, of aromas filled in crushed herbs and leaf with cherry, cranberry and plum fruits. It’s got real red fruit intensity on the palate with spice, dusty cacao and anise joined by a distinctive savouriness best described as undergrowth, dusty beetroot and green leaf with crushed herbs. It’s quite a particular and lasting feature of the wine set against a background of chewy tannins. Calls for an accompaniment at the table, maybe mushroom risotto.
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.
