Pokolbin Vintners Pokolbin Mountain Dry Red 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Pokolbin Vintners Pokolbin Mountain Dry Red 2024.

Pokolbin Vintners Pokolbin Mountain Dry Red 2024
AU$45, 13.5% alcohol, DIAM cork, Hunter Valley.

This is slightly richer, and deeper, than the 2023 release, but it is no less beautiful. Indeed there’s a feeling of completeness to this release. Effortless flavours of bright red cherry, plum, woodsmoke, sweet spice and red roses come inflected with cedarwood, blueberry and vanilla. The purity of this wine is quite something. The flow. The way it carries you along. It’s the kind of wine that feels both complex and simple at once, the latter courtesy of how free the fruit feels. This is how you make medium weight, high-terroir red wine. 95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

See also [Pokolbin Vintners Pokolbin Mountain Dry Red 2023]
See also [Pokolbin Vintners Pokolbin Mountain Dry Red 2025]

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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