Curly Flat Reserve Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Curly Flat Reserve Pinot Noir 2024.

Curly Flat Reserve Pinot Noir 2024
AU$95, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Macedon Ranges.

This is a seductive pinot noir. It shows powerful fruit and powerful oak, the latter evident as aroma, texture and flavour. Cherry-plum characters are the main drivers, though a combination of sweet spice, cedar-cream, woodsmoke and raspberry notes all swim extravagantly within the same pool. This wine is seamless now, but it needs more time for the oak to sink down further. Don’t touch it for another two years at least. After that, it promises to be seriously good.

93+ points – Campbell Mattinson.

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.

More about Campbell Mattinson

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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