Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Pinot Noir 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Pinot Noir 2025.

Russell & Suitor Son of a Bull Pinot Noir 2025
AU$35, 13.5% alcohol, screwcap, Tasmania.

I tasted this alongside a far higher priced pinot noir (double the price in fact) and this wine won the day by a margin. This is a ripper of a Pinot Noir. It’s cherried and sinewy and drifted with autumn leaf notes, and it has a touch of satin to its texture too. Sweet-sour cherry, woodsmoke and undergrowth characters play minor roles but, in doing so, emphasise this wine’s complexity. Excellence lives here.

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.

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