Cox Family Wines Tumbarumba Pinot Noir 2024
$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.
There’s good varietal character on offer here. It tastes of boysenberry and red cherries, the latter swerved both sweet and sour, with herbal inflections and some twiggy spice notes too. It’s lively. It’s fresh but there’s a slip of silk to its texture. And in a varietal context, it feels satisfying enough. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
