Vandenberg Six Brothers Pinot Noir 2023
$50, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is an attractive wine with sound varietal character, ample complexity and a good sling of flavour through the finish. It tastes of strawberries and red cherries with undergrowth and tobacco as complexing agents. There’s an element of sweet-sour fruit here, both on the nose and in the mouth, which works nicely. This is drinking well right now. 91 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.
