Provenance Golden Plains Pinot Noir 2023.
$37, 13.6% alcohol, screwcap, Geelong.
This is a great buying/drinking option. It’s complex, it shows finesse, it’s well sustained through the finish and the flavours themselves are joyous. Flavours of dried herbs, fresh red and black cherries, a stewed berry note and flings of spice/woodsmoke/orange rind. It’s a ripping wine at a (very) attractive price. 93 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.
