Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2024.

Mount Pleasant Mountain A Medium Bodied Dry Red 2024
AU$100, 14% alcohol, screwcap, Hunter Valley.

Those sensational red berried fruit flavours, those ribbons of alpine herbs and graphite, that gentle adornment of sweet, spicy oak matched to pods of cardamon and iron; this is a cracking wine, so more-ish, so classic, and just so plainly and effortlessly sophisticated. I tasted this over the course of three days; it was excellent from the start and all it did thereafter was improve. Glory be. This is what wine is all about. Grown on 1965-planted vines. I’m scoring it at 95 points but I could easily have gone a point higher. 95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See also [Mount Pleasant Mattinson 10-Star Winery]

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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