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
$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

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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