As Jodie put it, “Who the heck drinks Pinot from Orange!?”

We do, and it was delicious.

But just where is Orange?  It’s out of the way, even for wine geeks.  Cool and at a high altitude (the 123 acres of Koomooloo Vineyards where this comes from grow at 900m), it’s near Cowra in New South Wales, west of Sydney, Australia.

Here we have a wine that is a shade of translucent ruby with an elegant nose of summer Byng cherry and lots of deep black fruit with judicious oak.  It’s tender and delicate with smoothly ripened tannins and a dry palate showing medium plus acidity.  Flavours are medium intense and include more Byng and sour cherry, some light licorice fern, an herbal element, crushed rocks and wood.

WSET Very Good quality; drink now or hold for 2-3 years.  Bonus artwork marks go to the back label artwork – it’s even prettier than the front.