Yering Station Laura Barnes Pinot Noir 2021
- 95
- $70
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Such an elegant and accomplished Pinot Noir. My original score was in the early-90s, but I kept going back to the glass, and couldn’t resist. And as I returned, the score kept going up. There is so much to enjoy in this wine, each mouthful explores and finds something new to what is a lovely Pinot Noir. The mid-red colour looks brilliant in the glass. The aromas are quintessential Yarra Valley with vibrant cherry, rhubarb with a touch of savoury undergrowth and earth. It is both integrated and concentrated to taste with just a touch of tannin attitude – I like that in a Pinot. All the parts are moving in perfect unison leaving something to savour.
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.
