Best's Old Vine Pinot Meunier 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Best's Old Vine Pinot Meunier 2023.

Best's Old Vine Pinot Meunier 2023
$125, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Great Western/Grampians.

There’s an old vineyard at Great Western in the grampians wine region known as the Millers Burgundy vineyard, and this vineyard was – incredibly – planted in 1868. The vines growing in this vineyard are mostly Pinot Meunier, with a little Pinot Noir. This wine was grown on this vineyard. In terms of history and rarity and uniqueness and all those things, they don;’t come any more distinctive or special than Best’s Old Vine Pinot Meunier.

This 2023 release is a lacy wine with flavours and textures flying here and there. It's another beautiful release. It's floral and herbal and strawberried and earthen, its lightness overcome by its complex loveliness. Structure and length are perfectly pitched here. Excellent is the word. This wine is special. 95 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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