Review: Patina Pinot Noir 2018

Real cool climate wines these Patina releases. You can almost feel the cold Orange winter in every bottle. This Patina Pinot Noir 2018 is dead serious too.

Very firm and a bit stewy, the mode lean and extractive with red fruit and a drying finish. Needs more flesh to be delicious, but will please old school Burgundy lovers with its tannic bite. Long too. Not without charm, but I wouldn’t mind a bit more flesh. Fascinating to taste near the Quilty Merlot to – plenty of parallels.

Patina Pinot Noir 2018. Best drinking: now, but I’m holding out an each way bet for a few years of ageing to revisit. It has the legs. 17/20, 90/100. 13.6%, $45. Patina website. Would I buy it? A glass.

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