Get your wine tasted. This month, not next year.
Every year, thousands of wines cross my tasting bench. The Fast-Track option moves your wine(s) to the front of the queue – tasted, scored and written by Campbell Mattinson personally, with your review published within 15 business days of the wine arriving.
Submit WinesQueue-jumping, not a guarantee.
You can buy faster access to an independent review. You cannot buy a good review. A wine is published here only if it scores 89/100 or above; below that, nothing is published and half your fee is refunded. That distinction – the wines that don't make it – is what makes a score here worth something, to you and to the drinkers who trust it.
Read by buyers, not browsers.
Reviews published to campbellmattinson.com are read by 240,000+ unique visitors a year. These readers are drinkers, collectors and wine trade actively deciding what to buy and cellar. Every review is Google-indexed and SEO-optimised, so it works for your wine long after publication day.
Each published review is fully quotable and attributable to Campbell Mattinson – former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion, founder of The Winefront, twice Australian Wine Communicator of the Year. Score roundels are available for your labels, website and social media.
How to submit
Choose the number of wines and pay using the payment panel.
Email campbellmattinson@gmail.com with your wine list and high-resolution bottle images.
Mark the RRP on each bottle, and mark the box clearly: "FAST-TRACK WINE REVIEW SERVICE".
Send to: Mattinson's Fast-Track Review Service, 12 Thorpe Street, Newport VIC 3015.
FAQ for wineries
No. Payment buys position in the queue, nothing else. Every wine is assessed on what's in the glass – same bench, same standards, same palate as every other wine reviewed on this site.
No review is published, no score is released publicly, and 50% of your fee is refunded. Your wine doesn't appear on any list of also-rans, because none exists here.
Campbell Mattinson. No panel, no contributors, no juniors. The name on the review is the palate that assessed it.
Yes – quote it in full with attribution to Campbell Mattinson, preferably including reference to CampbellMattinson.com. Roundels are available for commercial use.
The Winefront has its own submission process and guidelines, unchanged – see winefront.com.au. Fast-Track applies to this site only.
"If a wine isn't good enough to review, it isn't reviewed."
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