Yabby Lake Red Claw Pinot Noir 2025
- 92
- $40
- Drink by: 2026-2033
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Trademark Mornington Peninsula cherry, berry fruits to the fore here with toasted oak spice, florals and a layer of herbs, leaf. A wine tale in two parts. Once opened it is spice fuelled, lively, juicy and bright in summer berries and spice, smooth fleshed with lacy, fine tannins that dance. A gentle blood orange peel note to close is so fresh. Day two and the scene changes ever so slightly. My notes speak of a gathering “brooding” quality, a deeper expression of what came before. Gotta say I liked both sides of the Red Claw Pinot story, day one and day two. This is a Pinot not short on personality.
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.
