Les Roches Saintes Picpoul de Pinet 2025
$40, 12.5% alcohol, cork, France.
Beautiful white wine. It’s stoney, fruity, grainy and well sustained. In fact every sip of this reveals something different and yet, at the same time, it feels easy-going and more-ish. Pear, florals, chalk, tonic water, citrus and stonefruit flavours all make balanced contributions. It’s all served fresh, and it all tastes delightful. 93 points.
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.
