Garagiste Le Stagiaire Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Garagiste Le Stagiaire Pinot Noir 2025.

Garagiste Le Stagiaire Pinot Noir 2025
AU$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Mornington Peninsula.

There’s just so much life here. And so much going on. And such tension to the tannin. And such all-round confidence. I know that $35 is not bargain basement for us normal folks but in pinot noir terms, this Mornington Peninsula stunner bats far above its weight. It’s juicy and energetic and tannic and herbal at once, in a cohesive way, and it sings beautifully out through the finish as well. For me, this is a definite buy.

94 points, Campbell Mattinson.

This wine was featured in the [Best Value Pinot Noir 2026] article.

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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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