Best's Young Vine Pinot Meunier 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Best's Young Vine Pinot Meunier 2025.

Best's Young Vine Pinot Meunier 2025
$45, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Grampians.

“Young Vine” here means 55-years-old. Which is old vine in anyone else’s language. It’s just that Best’s also make an “old vine” pinot meunier, which is made with vines planted in 1868. Yes, 1868. And they’re still in production.

I digress.

This 2025 release of Best’s Young Vine Pinot Meunier is a delight. An absolute delight. It’s cherried and cranberried and fennel-laced and saltbush-strewn, with green olive and peanut shell characters running through bright, perfumed, acid-tense fruit. It all carries beautifully through the finish; it’s light and floral but it all pulls as one. 94 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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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