Lambrook ALOFT Pinot Noir 2026
AU$25, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
Fleshy red and black cherry flavours are served in crisp-but-textural style. The flavours race through the mouth but have a bit of silk to them too. Floral notes are studded straight into the fruit, and both gum leaf and peppercorn characters add a bit extra. You can’t argue with the value here.
91 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
