Santa & D’Sas …ish Pinot Noir 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Santa & D’Sas …ish Pinot Noir 2022.

Santa & D’Sas …ish Pinot Noir 2022
$25, 13.0% alcohol, screwcap, King Valley.

This is a light, sinewy red wine that is both refreshing and perfectly suited to the dinner table. What it lacks in robust or dense fruit flavour it makes up for in versatility. It tastes of cranberry and red cherry with strings of herbs strewn through, though as it breathes a red licorice character unfurls. There’s plenty of tannin, particularly in the context of such lightness, but the wine’s overall energy makes it work. This would be perfect with a plate of salumi. 90 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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