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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both The Winefront site (the home of Australia’s best wine reviews) and of Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson is a storyteller. He is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic, and in all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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