Warramunda Liv Zak Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2019
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- $38
- Drink by: 2021 - 2025
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This Yarra Pinot Noir has early drinking written all over it, what with that bright cherry beat that keeps time to some pretty energetic acidity. The palate is sinewy with a dusty, earthy overlay, rhubarb and plum.
This new label from Warramunda celebrates a collaboration between Liv Zak, the daughter of the founders, and the Warramunda winemaking team. It is part easy/earlier drinking pleasure and part discovery of new grapes and creative winemaking strokes.
For instance, here the makers incorporate the on-trend role of whole bunch – 60% – in the winemaking process which aids some of that cherry, red berry and aromatic bounce, and definitely the taut structure that follows.
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.
