Thorn-Clarke Sandpiper Pinot Gris 2025
$25, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
The aromas are lifted, the flavour has an attractive brightness to it, and the finish feels refined. This pinot gris is right in the groove. Pear, talc and rose flavcours run into honeysuckle and lime. Everything here works nicely. 90 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.
