Yabby Lake Tasmania Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025

This well-travelled Pinot has a hell of a story to tell. Fruit was hand-picked in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley before being transferred overnight to the Yabby Lake Vineyard winery on the Mornington Peninsula. Winemakers then got down to work, de-stemming fruit before wild fermentation in oak with the addition of some whole bunches (8%). The finale involved maturation time in French puncheons (25% new). The detail in the winemaking is reflected in the wine. Vibrant purple-red hues. Fruit – red cherry, damson plums, dried raspberry – shows a fragrant, aromatic lift matched to musk florals, rose petal, herbs, red liquorice and spice. Fine-edged, fine tannin-ed, it runs smooth across the tongue in a world of bright flavour with an underlying earthiness that resonates long. So elegant, so good both now and into a medium-long term future which is assured.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic