Cooks Lot Iconique Barrique R16R17 Pinot Noir 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Cooks Lot Iconique Barrique R16R17 Pinot Noir 2019.

Cooks Lot Iconique Barrique R16R17 Pinot Noir 2019
$60, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Orange.

This is a firm, complex, serious pinot noir with charm in-laid and length to burn. It tastes of undergrowth, sweet-sour cherries, chicory and round after round of sweet spice, with autumnal leaf notes whispering as highlights. The complex array of flavour here is one thing – as is the wine’s overall, exquisite balance – but the structural authority of this wine is another. This is a mature, confident wine of both character and control. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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