Yering Station Pinot Noir Reserve 2023
- 97
- $130
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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This wine comes from a barrel selection of the best batches from Blocks Y07 and Y13. The fruit was carefully treated, gravity-fed into small open fermenters, and gently plunged and pumped over. Maturation was in French puncheons (about 16% new) over 10 months. It’s a silky, fine, and effortless wine beginning with an exotic mix of cherry, plum, and bright red fruits on the nose. Lots of spicy strawberry notes and even a touch of crunchy red apple on the palate, with a faint, muted background of light truffle. Fine but firm tannins and precise chalky acidity support a wine of tremendous power and remarkable elegance.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
