Moppity Lock & Key Pinot Noir Chardonnay 2025
$35, 12% alcohol, cork, Tumbarumba.
There’s a keen hit of grapefruit-like flavour here which then kicks the wine straight into yeast, cooked apple and baked pastry notes. This wine is as convincing as it is enjoyable. The bead is fine, there’s a glide of strawberry flavours over the top, and the finish sails on appreciably. This is an excellent sparkling wine. 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.
