Warramunda Estate Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2019
- 95
- $55
- Drink by: 2021 - 2029
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Hugely enticing. That bouquet of pomegranate pearls, cranberry, dried herbs, nettle with a swish of aromatic violet sells itself. The wine that follows is in a similar mould.
At 12% alcohol you imagine the flavour might be on the skinny side. No way. It’s delicate, yes, but there are things at 12% that you sometimes miss at 13.5%, like that spray of spring flowers and the intensity of red cherry that permeates the wine. The palate opens up before you. Fills the mouth before moving into a long, sinewy, persistent tannin finish.
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.
