The Lane Vineyard LDR 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of The Lane Vineyard LDR 2025.

The Lane Vineyard LDR 2025
$30, 12.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

I assume that LDR stands for Light Dry red but in any case, it’s a blend of Pinot Noir and Shiraz – one of the classic blends of Australia’s rich winemaking past.

This is soft, well balanced, attractively flavoured and, more than anything, just plain delicious. The Lane Vineyard has some very lovely wines in its portfolio right now, and this is definitely one of them. It tastes of red and black cherries, woodsy herbs, sweet cedar and violets, though in all honesty it mostly tastes of one harmonious whole. It’s well sustained through the finish, and quite simply a delight, every step of the way. 93 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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