Punch Lance’s Vineyard Close Planted Pinot Noir 2023

Written By Campbell Mattinson
bottle of Punch Lance’s Vineyard Close Planted Pinot Noir 2023 for review

Punch Lance’s Vineyard Close Planted Pinot Noir 2023
$80, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Yarra Valley.

This wine paints a complex picture but, also, it brings the silk. It’s a straight-up banger of a Pinot Noir. Undergrowth, black cherry, sap, forest berries and foresty herbs, boysenberries and violets; all these characters get a run, and all walk hand-in-hand. There’s a nutty, sweet-spice aspect to this wine too; it is, in essence and in truth, a beautiful expression of this important vineyard. Tannin through the finish too is perfectly well resolved, which then leads to a long finish. This is the kind of wine that gave Punch’s Close Planted vineyard such a high reputation in the first place. It’s a beauty. 95 points.

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.

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