Yering Station Laura Barnes Pinot Noir 2022
- 91
- $70
- Drink by: 2023-2030
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Not immediately upfront and forward. Far from it. Laura Barnes requires a little more attention than its Pinot siblings, a few more swishes in the glass, some air and some time. Briar, earth, leaf, red cherry, cranberry, splashes of spicy aniseed and earthy rhubarb aromas arise as it opens up. While medium in body it has a grainy, almost austere, presence in the glass which belies its depth of flavour bringing in bramble, red cherry, cranberry and earthy rhubarb notes. It shows surprising delicacy, but it is definitely a wine of potential. All it asks is a little time.
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.
