Shy Susan Pinot Gris 2024
$40, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Alpine Valleys.
This isn’t your average pinot gris. It has a gravity. It tastes of apple, grapefruit, citrus and woodsmoke, with twiggy, wheaty herb characters rising as the wine breathes. There’s almost a peppery aspect to this, a spark. It’s very good. It’s textural and punchy and perfumed and a step or three beyond the average. 94 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.
