Balhannah Wines Pinot Noir 2025
A$45, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
I like the structure of these Balhannah Wines releases. There’s an attractive – and appropriate – firmness to this Adelaide Hills pinot noir, which combines well with flavours of red and black cherries soaked in herbs and toasted spice, as well as autumn leaves and smoked meat notes. This is good. It offers an array of flavours, enough substance, god shape and good polish. 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.
