De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Gamay 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Gamay 2025.

De Bortoli The Estate Vineyard Gamay 2025
$25, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

The bottle image here says Gamay Noir but the wine is simply labelled as Gamay. This wine won a major trophy at the 2026 National Wine Show and has enjoyed (wine) show success in general. Given that the asking price is $25, that’s a remarkable feat.

There’s good colour to this wine, lots of attractive perfume, a friskiness to the palate but plenty of life and lift there too. It’s lighter in flavour than it is in colour but everything works nicely here: the cranberry-cherry notes, the floral dynamics, the spice notes and the edge of orange-and-cherry-infused tonic water. Grapey tannin seals the deals: this is good drinking. 91 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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