Cambria Julia's Vineyard Pinot Noir 2022
13.9% alcohol, cork, Santa Maria Valley.
This is a tight, spicy pinot with good fruit power, toasty spicy oak influence, strident tannin, some blue fruits, positive reduction, and a good mix of forward and backward, so to speak. Value is high here. This is a good pinot. 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.
