Hesketh Small Batch Pinot Blanc 2024
$28, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This wine starts off subtle and gradually gets under your skin. It’s a pretty good way for a wine to be. It tastes of apples, pears, steel, mint and river stones, and while it’s fresh and fruity there’s a whisper of texture too, which never hurts. Good wine, this. 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.
