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

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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