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 post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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