Tomich Icon I777 Pinot Noir 2021
- 95
- $60
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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The Icon Series is the pinnacle of what the team can achieve in all respects and this is a most worthy inclusion, a cracking Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir. It is also the only wine in this array which is under cork/diam. Carefully chosen parcels of fruit are fermented in small batches with wild yeasts. The Icon wines are only produced in select vintages and of course, 2021 is as good a year as we have seen in many years in this region. This example is made from their Block 1, which is devoted to the 777 clone of Pinot Noir. The colour is an appealing crimson/red. The nose is exhibiting spices, florals, violets, dry herbs, tobacco leaf notes, raspberries and a cherry pit character. This is seamless, fresh and impeccably balanced with impressive length through to silky tannins. There is complexity here, despite the youth, and so much potential to improve. No reason that this won’t continue to drink well over the next 7 to 10 years. Terrific stuff.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
