Wentworth, Wentworth Vineyard Pinot Noir

Wentworth, Wentworth Vineyard Pinot NoirBright, with blood orange and rooibos tea notes, laced with pine and sanguine details through the silky, unadorned finish. Drink now through 2026. 171 cases made. Published on September 30, 2023

cool and strikingly elegant nose combines notes of spice tea and floral nuances with those of white and yellow orchard fruit

Notes of petrol and matchstick character are present on the ripe and appealingly fresh aromas of citrus confit and pretty white floral wisps

this is another infant at age 10

Shows grip and character

A faint trace of the exotic can be found on the cool

which were aged exclusively in French oak because of the tiny quantities of those wines

steadily building tannins

The bouquet here is nuanced and delicate with an evident mineral signature that is followed by ever-increasingbut extremely elegant throughoutberry fruit and blue flower aromas

yet age effortlessly for 25 years

it would be 1971 as I remember it

now complemented by hints of iodine

Once again there is a vague mintiness to the otherwise cool and elegant aromas of mostly floral and citrus wisps