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

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.

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