Lambrook Trueheart Pinot Noir 2026
AU$25, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.
This is a light, crisp, refreshing style of pinot noir but then it’s also savoury and spread with fine-grained tannin. The fruit is just-ripe and not sweet at all; it presents cranberry and red berry flavours, infused here with dry gum leaf and purple flower notes. It works for its refreshment, and for its food-friendliness.
89 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.
