Cloudbreak Pinot Gris 2025
$28, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is fruity, dry, crisp and refreshing. It doesn’t pack a lot of flavour but its characters of nashi pear, green apple and lychee are satisfying enough, and not too taxing. This wine is a perfect food accompaniment because it does compete, it cleanses. 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.
