Provenance Doeven Pinot Noir 2023

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

Provenance Doeven Pinot Noir 2023
AU$120, 13.2% alcohol, cork, Henty.

This is a single vineyard wine with a production of 25 dozen only. It’s a Pinot Noir from the Henty region, the vines planted in the 1980s, the location close-by to Seppelt’s famed Drumborg vineyard.

This wine brings the power, the silk, the complexity and the elegance. It’s the best of many worlds. It’s alive with fragrant herb characters though, in truth, they are tucked into the bright blue-and-red berry flavours, and the twiggy spice notes, and the wine’s general, smoky, fruit-sweetness. Make no mistake, this wine is both savoury and autumnal, but the berried-flavours feel beautifully ripened, and the fruit itself feels velvety. This is an elite pinot noir.

96 points – Campbell Mattinson.

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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