Provenance Sinclair Pinot Noir 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Provenance Sinclair Pinot Noir 2023.

Provenance Sinclair Pinot Noir 2023
$120, 13.2% alcohol, cork, Ballarat.

This is a single vineyard wine with a production of 25 dozen only. It’s grown on vines that are now over 25 years old, growing at 510 metres above sea level.

This is a wine of terrific concentration, power, structure and length. It’s varietal and, from there, it’s just itself. It’s tastes of cherry-plums, woodsmoke, twiggy spice, undergrowth and cedar, though there’s also a suggestion of aromatic, “Italian” herbs. This is a pinot noir to stop you in your tracks. It’s has that silken feel throughout, combined with such insistence on the finish. It’s a fabulous wine. 96 points.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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