Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2025.

Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2025
AU$26, 13.2% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

Every year for the past 20+ years Hoddles Creek Estate has streeted (or at least equalled) the field and made/released Australia’s best value Pinot Noir. Every year. It’s incredible. This 2025 release is right up there once again; it’s as firm, fine, complex and delicious as it always is. This year we see red and black cherry flavours, five spice notes, flashes of mint and even fennel. It has both composure and drinkability writ large, though the fineness of the tannin and the dryness of the finish lend it, too, a seriousness.

93+ points – Campbell Mattinson.

This wine is featured in [Best Value Pinot Noir of 2026]
[Hoddles Creek Estate is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery]

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.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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