Warramunda Estate Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
- 93
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2032
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From a single vineyard in the Yarra Valley’s Coldstream Hills sub-region, the team use 80% whole berries and 20% whole bunches. A crimson/garnet hue, it walks the line between savoury/mushroom/undergrowth and earthy notes plus lifted fruit characters with raspberries, cherries, florals and spices. Good focus, fine acidity and a lingering finish, the flavours are currently largely to the fore but in twelve months, this should be even more impressive. Seamless in structure, it should drink well for the following four to seven years.
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.
