Marnong Estate Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
$40, 12.7% alcohol, screwcap, Sunbury.
This is a juicy, fruity Pinot Noir with vanilla and violet characters adding a certain prettiness. It tastes essentially of sweet red cherry and peppercorn but those floral and cream-like notes add something extra. This wine is a relatively simple pleasure but sometimes that’s exactly what you’re looking for. 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.
