Oakdene Peta’s Pinot Noir 2022

Written By Campbell Mattinson

This is spicy and lively but also quite tannic, all of which factors suggest that it would team well with food. The acidity here almost has a tomato-like edge, which might lead some to question the wine’s ripeness. To me it just feels lively, in a savoury way. Cranberry, light red cherry, woodsmoke, meat and leaf matter characters all get a run here. It’s not an emphatic wine but it’s composed and complete in its own way. I’d happily buy-drink this and would happily give it a score around the 92/100 mark.

Price: AU $40.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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