Ponting Mowbray Boy Pinot Noir 2023
The Ponting Pinot Noir presents a bouquet of red cherries, raspberries, and hints of earthy spices. On the palate, it reveals a harmonious balance of fruit and savory notes, with flavors of cranberries, subtle oak, and a touch of forest floor. Silky tannins and vibrant acidity provide structure and elegance, leading to a lingering, smooth finish. This Pinot Noir exemplifies the finesse and complexity of Tasmania's cool-climate terroir, making it an excellent choice for pairing with roasted duck or grilled salmon.
Region: Tamar Valley, Tasmania
Budburst Rating: #verygoodwine 91pts
last tasted by Joe 27/2/25
The Ponting Pinot Noir presents a bouquet of red cherries, raspberries, and hints of earthy spices. On the palate, it reveals a harmonious balance of fruit and savory notes, with flavors of cranberries, subtle oak, and a touch of forest floor. Silky tannins and vibrant acidity provide structure and elegance, leading to a lingering, smooth finish. This Pinot Noir exemplifies the finesse and complexity of Tasmania's cool-climate terroir, making it an excellent choice for pairing with roasted duck or grilled salmon.
Region: Tamar Valley, Tasmania
Budburst Rating: #verygoodwine 91pts
last tasted by Joe 27/2/25
The Ponting Pinot Noir presents a bouquet of red cherries, raspberries, and hints of earthy spices. On the palate, it reveals a harmonious balance of fruit and savory notes, with flavors of cranberries, subtle oak, and a touch of forest floor. Silky tannins and vibrant acidity provide structure and elegance, leading to a lingering, smooth finish. This Pinot Noir exemplifies the finesse and complexity of Tasmania's cool-climate terroir, making it an excellent choice for pairing with roasted duck or grilled salmon.
Region: Tamar Valley, Tasmania
Budburst Rating: #verygoodwine 91pts
last tasted by Joe 27/2/25
About Ponting Wines
Ponting Wines is a collaboration between one of Australia’s most celebrated cricketers, Ricky Ponting and Ben Riggs, an award-winning Australian winemaker known for uncompromising, high quality wines. Masters of their craft, their partnership has been forged to celebrate their dedication and achievements.
Each wine reflects Ricky’s life and has been carefully crafted by Ben to ensure flavour, structure and complexity are of the highest quality.
Ben’s winery in South Australia is positioned at the premium end of the ladder, and uses his extensive contacts with growers to pick exceptional fruit from Tasmania, the Adelaide Hills, Clare Valley, Barossa Valley, Coonawarra and McLaren Vale. Ben’s winemaking philosophy is to make unpretentious wines that express the essence of the vineyard and the region’s terroir in a style that Ben enjoys drinking; big, rich and complex, but also with finesse, texture and elegance.
