Thunderstone Pinot Noir 2024
- 96
- $67
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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Right from the outset, there is a varietal purity of Pinot Noir that strikes on the nose. It’s a light to medium-bodied wine and yet there is immense power. The aromas of raspberry and cherry with some brambly forest floor nuances are most appealing. Once the palate kicks in it really starts to move into gear. It’s still quite tight, and yet you can see the fruit qualities that are held within. Impeccably balanced and poised, this is a Pinot that says, “Yeah, sure, drink me now, but I reckon wait 10 or 12 years, and you’re going to have something pretty special.”
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.
