Provenance Ballarat Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Provenance Ballarat Pinot Noir 2024.

Provenance Ballarat Pinot Noir 2024
$55, 13.2% alcohol, screwcap, Ballarat.

This wine leans heavily into savouriness – it has a distinctly autumnal feel – but its fruit still feels and tastes ripe and indeed it carries a juiciness throughout. Forest berry notes run into earth, undergrowth, dried leaves and sweet spices, with mint, white flowers, fennel and roasted nut notes presenting as highlights. It’s both sophisticated and more-ish at once, and intricately structured as well. In the end you can safely file this wine under Seriously Good. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of both the highly respected The Winefront site (founded 2002) and Mattinson Photography.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. 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 prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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