Gioiello Running Creek Pinot Noir 2024
$25, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Upper Goulburn.
This is a light, crisp and refreshing Pinot Noir with woodsy spice, twig, cranberry, apple sauce and just-ripe strawberry characters running throughout. Racy acidity means that it needs food to show at its best, but there’s certainly plenty going on in this light, varietal Pinot Noir. 89 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.
