Shaw + Smith Pinot Noir 2024
$58, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a good release of Shaw + Smith Pinot Noir. It’s fresh, berried, supple and energetic – at once – with sweet spice and cedar-smoke notes woven through the core of tangy red cherry. Tannin is fine, the finish is sound, and it feels immaculate from start to finish – almost too immaculate. Now or over the next few years it will drink reliably well. 93 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.
