Provenance Darriwill Pinot Noir 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Provenance Darriwill Pinot Noir 2023.

Provenance Darriwill Pinot Noir 2023
$120, 13.5% alcohol, cork, Geelong.

This is a single vineyard wine with a production of 25 dozen only. The Darriwill vineyard is local to the Provenance winery, in the Moorabool Valley near Geelong. Indeed the Provenance winery has worked with this vineyard for over 20 years.

The power in this limited-run series of Pinot Noirs from Provenance is quite something. This wine lays down its quality in no uncertain terms, its notes of black cherry, foresty herbs, earth and orange peel blending beautifully with smoky, cedarwood oak. The tannin of this wine is fine and beautifully judged, the finish then persistent and then some. This wine needs a couple of extra years in the bottle but thereafter, it will sing. 94+ 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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