Provenance Ballarat Pinot Noir 2024

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

Provenance Ballarat Pinot Noir 2024
AU$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.

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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