Monty’s Leap Pinot Noir 2025
40, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Great Southern.
This is a tangy Pinot Noir with strawberry, red cherry, woodsy spice notes, orange blossom and mint running energetically through the palate. There’s a sweet sultana-like character sitting in the centre of the palate too, which adds flesh and accessibility. This wine will drink at its best at the dining table. 89 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.
