The Lane Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025
$30, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a light, dry, well-structured and refreshing pinot noir. It’s also inherently complex, without being in-your-face about it. It tastes of cranberries, raspberries, twiggy herbs, woodsmoke and violets, and from start to finish it’s a very easy wine to like. 91 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.
