La Vicomte Authentique Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of La Vicomte Authentique Pinot Noir 2025.

La Vicomte Authentique Pinot Noir 2025
$30, 13% alcohol, DIAM cork, Pays d’Oc France.

This has a bit more substance than your average Pinot Noir but it remains varietal and the effect is impressive. Indeed if I saw this for sale I would snap it up in a heartbeat. Cherry-plum flavours do most of the talking though forest mint, potpourri and sweet cedar characters all contribute. There’s a good, dry pull of meaty tannin through the finish; in fact the more you look the more there is to enjoy. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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