Yering Station Reserve Pinot Noir 2021
- 96
- $130
- Drink by: 2023-2031
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This is compiled from a barrel selection, with the grapes originally coming from four different blocks and a range of clones including some whole bunch inclusion. Maturation in 500 litre French oak for nine months, with 15% new. An attractive pale crimson, there is a wonderfully alluring smoky, brambly note to open the nose. Dry herbs, truffles, leather, spices, animal hides and red fruits, this has elegance, length and balance. Very fine tannins, excellent persistence with intensity running the full journey. Red cherries also evident on the palate with so much to like here. Drink over the next four to eight years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
