Mike Press Wines Pinot Noir 2023
$27, 13.5%, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Perfumed aromas of fruits and flowers are the perfect introduction here. This smells of summer berries, orange rind and sweet spices, and while it tastes of these characters too it then adds notes of cedar, assorted dried flowers and a rusty, stone-like note. Its charms are clear, up-front and ready to be enjoyed now. 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.
