2024 Coulter Wines Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir

· 92pts Wine Companion (Mike Bennie), "A super-easy drink, lots of charm, stacked with red berry fruitiness, some sour-sweet cherry elements, a lick of aniseed and chocolate. It flows with spot-on softness, silky tannins, sweet spice and some truffle savouriness. Very fun, very cool, nice drinking."

· 92pts Campbell Mattinson (Wine Front), "This pinot noir is bright and accessible on the one hand, and complex on the other. It shows raspberry and red cherry flavours with mint, ground spice and assorted floral characters dancing throughout. It’s harmonious, well shaped and well finished, the texture just soft enough to give it a silkiness. It’s a wine of integrity, but it’s also a wine that’s very easy to enjoy."

· 92pts Q Wine, "Let's be honest with one another... Given the choice, Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir isn't something I'd reach for, but gee, I'd buy this Coulter Wines Pinot Noir. What a beauty! It's a wine with poise and serious reach. Blueberry pie, red currants and dark cherries set the scene with a handful of baked raspberries wriggling forward the longer it sits in the glass. Some cedar and cloves add a neat savoury shade with delicate fine spices woven into the frame nicely. A blanket of moreishness coats the finish courtesy of some dusty and chalky tannins that reach well into the night. It's really good stuff."

· 91pts Tom Kline (Wine Pilot), "This is quite brown spice driven on opening with a lovely lift of nutmeg and cassia bark melding with sweet raspberry and cherry fruit. There’s some sous-bois earthiness and a subtle sheath of whole bunch spice adding dimension. The palate is bright and airy sitting high in the mouth with a gentle sluice of raspberry, strawberry and cherry with nutmeg and a touch of earth in support. A diaphanous frame of chalky tannins frames a finish of medium length along with earthy acidity. Overall concentration was a question mark, but it did seem to build and flesh out in the glass. And at $37 this exhibits lovely freshness and brightness with good spice and earth complexity intermingling with the fruit."