Moppity Vineyards Lock & Key Pinot Noir 2025
AU$35, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.
This is a well-structured pinot noir with fruit flavour and fragrance aplenty. It tastes of stewed cherries, sweet spices, floral notes and cedar, and from start to finish it feels both convincing and confident. You could cellar this for a few years or of course drink it right now; it will work equally well, either way.
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.
