Yabby Lake Single Vineyard Tasmania Pinot Noir 2025
- 97
- $75
- Drink by: 2026-2040
Share
Beautifully complex, with an alternating whiff of whole bunch – a little brambly, cinnamon-stick note surfacing, then gently plunging down below the red fruit composition. While the mix of oak and cooking spices seems a little more prominent on more than one occasion, with a duo of cedar and umami-led shiitake mushrooms rounding out each whiff, with time in the glass, the delicate yet well-designed fruit quality gently unfurls. I’d give it more time in bottle (after all, it’s only been in bottle since late January). A focused, lingering freshness, coupled with a feathery texture, makes for more of a patience exercise in this case, as the wine closes up pretty tight – nevertheless, the refined quality of the fruit holds lots of promise.
Lisa Cardelli is an Italian-born wine professional who has been based in Melbourne since 2010. She worked as a sommelier in some of the city’s leading fine-dining restaurants for over ten years before leaving hospitality to become a wine sales representative. Lisa is now a journalist for Il Globo, the newspaper for Italians in Australia and around the world, where she also curates her own wine column. She continues to write about wine for both local and international publications and is on track to become one of the few prolific bilingual wine writers in Australia. A certified WSET Educator, she teaches at various venues across Melbourne. She also judges at local wine shows and for the prestigious Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards. Lisa was the recipient of the 2022 Wine Communicators of Australia award for Best Published Feature Article, a finalist for the same award in 2024, the recipient of the 2022 Sydney Royal Wine Professional Development Scholarship sponsored by the Len Evans Foundation, and one of twelve carefully selected Len Evans Scholars in 2024.
