Grosset Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Grosset Pinot Noir 2025.

Grosset Pinot Noir 2025
$97, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

Only 400 cases produced. 50% whole bunch, foot stomped, bottled unfined.

This is a wine of curiosity and charm, miracle and wonder. It’s light, svelte, complex and insistent at once. It tastes of an assortment of berries – boysenberry, blueberry, blackberry and something like raspberry or certainly a redder berry character – but then too there are spice and floral notes, and smoky oak too. It all rattles around a fraction at this early stage of its life but even by its release date – in April 2026 – it should have come together, and from next year onwards it will present beautifully. It’s got something, this wine; something special. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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